December 11, 2015
by Nosemonkey
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Yesterday I returned from work to find an anti-EU leaflet on the doorstep. So you can imagine my surprise to find it was covered in an array of spurious bullshit. Let’s take a look, “point” by “point”: 1) EU cost. … Continue reading
January 23, 2014
by Nosemonkey
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The pictures coming out of Kiev yesterday (decent galley here) gave me – and no doubt plenty of others – a bit of a flashback to November/December 2004’s Orange Revolution. The riots are in protest against the same president and … Continue reading
January 15, 2011
by Nosemonkey
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I won it last year – there’s no reason why (if you have a blog on EU affairs) you couldn’t win it this year. From the press release: The European Parliament Prize for Journalism will be awarded for the fourth … Continue reading
December 31, 2010
by Nosemonkey
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Sorry – no time to write up yet, so beneath the fold are the videos of the event I spoke at earlier this month, looking at how the EU is portrayed in the British media and blogs. The first panel … Continue reading
December 3, 2010
by Nosemonkey
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As long-time readers will know, one of this blog’s lasting obsessions is the portrayal of the EU in the British media. Hell, the rampant bias and distortions (from both the pro- and the anti- camps) were pretty much what got … Continue reading
October 16, 2010
by Nosemonkey
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Some thoughts… Continue reading
August 27, 2010
by Nosemonkey
Comments Off on Not dead – just tweeting
Horrifically busy in the real world, hence the longest break in blogging on this site in more than six years. I am, however, still commenting away about the EU (among other things) in 140 characters or less on Twitter on … Continue reading
July 2, 2010
by Nosemonkey
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More egg nonsense, I’m afraid, but this was too good not to share. From the comments to inexplicably popular UK political blogger Iain Dale’s “you couldn’t make it up” post about the made-up story about the EU banning the selling … Continue reading
May 20, 2010
by Nosemonkey
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Details here. I’ve been named the UK finalist in the internet section for my June 2009 post on the percentage of UK laws that come from the EU (also published on Liberal Conspiracy and BlogActiv). From the announcement: “An article … Continue reading
March 29, 2010
by Nosemonkey
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It’s worth remembering this – no one understands the EU. No one *can* understand the EU. Continue reading
July 29, 2009
by Nosemonkey
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A new European blogging platform I’ve been helping to develop, aimed at raising the level of debate Continue reading
June 7, 2009
by Nosemonkey
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I’m on Twitter at the moment, blathering away more or less incoherently with a bunch of other Eurobloggers (@JonWorth, @JulienFrisch, @kosmopolit, @citizeneurope, @EuropeanCitizen and a bunch of others) as the results and rumours come in. Follow along via the hashtags … Continue reading
February 3, 2009
by Nosemonkey
Comments Off on And another promising new EU blog
This time from the editors of the European Parliament’s own website, with all sorts of hints of interesting new developments in the EU’s previously more or less dire online communications policy. From the early posts, they seem to get it … Continue reading
February 3, 2009
by Nosemonkey
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Just like busses, you wait ages for some promising new EU-focussed bloggers, and then 81 turn up at once… (And, judging from their photos, they aren’t all youngsters, as I was expecting, and there are even some GIRLS! Shocking! Though … Continue reading