Scissor Sisters if you’re Liam Fox, Dido if you’re Nicholas Soames, The Smiths if you’re David Cameron and Meatloaf if you’re Michael Ancram. As the Conservatives set up shop in Bournemouth, some bright spark came up with idea of trying … Continue reading →

It’s scarcely breaking news that Kerry is held as marginal winner of the first bear pit square-off of Bush v. challenger. This little beauty (courtesy of mefi) gives another perspective on things. Basically, to paraphrase an old friend of mine, … Continue reading →

Britain is one of America’s closest allies. So why does the US persist in illegally detaining and torturing our citizens? This report, of a letter written by British Guant�namo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg, alleges yet more torture by US troops. … Continue reading →

Checking the front pages of today�s US papers, it looks rather like last night�s debate � coinciding as it did with yet another appalling attack in Iraq – is hopefully going to work to Kerry�s advantage. There can be few … Continue reading →

Then check out DocuTicker (with the obligatory ta to Metafilter) – “a daily update of new reports from government agencies, ngo’s, think tanks, and other groups.” Looks like a superb blogging resource, providing handy summaries of and links to various … Continue reading →

Let me know if I’m boring you… I just posted this as a comment to this post on EU Referendum. I ended up going on a bit, along the same lines as I did the other day… The pro-European campaign … Continue reading →

1,191 : 15,033 Isn’t liberation grand? If a similar ratio of liberating military to civilian deaths had been the case during the freeing of Europe in World War II, the total civilian dead on the continent would have been in … Continue reading →

Intense workloads have prevented me from posting about the questioning of the new EU Commissioners that is going on from now until 8th October. Updates on the hearings seem to be cropping up on EurActiv most of the time. The … Continue reading →

Despite my last post, the “yes” campaign has a long way to go. As long as we continue to bitch among ourselves, the stronger the “no” campaign will become. Although they may seem obvious to us, the benefits of closer … Continue reading →

The eurosceptic EU Referendum blog points me in the direction of The Foreign Policy Centre‘s website, and a pdf download entitled “The Referendum Battle”. It is, as EU Referendum points out, effectively a plan of attack for the “yes” campaign, … Continue reading →

The Guardian, Times and Independent all seem to have read more into Brown’s speech yesterday than was necessarily there. Is this the usual nonsense, or is there actually something going on? Guardian: Chancellor Swipes at Blair and Milburn Times: Turf … Continue reading →

A very good piece by Linda Colley on the US elections (as if there aren’t already enough pieces on the bloody things) in today’s Guardian which I’ve only just noticed. It says nothing particularly new, by it is a very … Continue reading →

The San Francisco Chronicle wins today’s best headline award, as well as the award for stating the bloody obvious. A majority of Europeans would prefer to see Bush lose in November? Well I never! Meanwhile, oil prices hit a record … Continue reading →