George Soros is usually worth a read, even if you don’t agree with him. To mark the new year, he’s fired off a piece on The World Economy’s Shifting Challenges, which includes these gloriously optimistic passages: “Future [European] crises will … Continue reading →

One of the more useful pieces I found over the festive period,  thanks to Craig Willy – a rare outsider to the European system who actually understands how it works, and as such an excellent guide who comes with limited … Continue reading →

What is ostensibly a review of Tony Judt’s astounding Postwar ends up something rather wonderful: http://m.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/the-myth-of-western-civilization/282704/ “Nations seem to require myth… the European super-nation has long needed to believe itself above the world, above native America, above Asia, and particularly … Continue reading →

Not sure what approach to take yet, but I don’t get to write as much in the day job as I’d like and an getting rusty. Will likely be a bit random to begin as I work it all out … Continue reading →

This blog’s most popular post ever remains one from June 2009 on the percentage of laws that come from the EU. It’s won me an award and been quoted in numerous follow-up studies, including one by the House of Commons … Continue reading →

Oh God… Two minutes in, and it’s the campest thing I’ve seen all year. This is going to be excellent… Three minutes in, it’s not exactly a *European* opening, is it? Rather Middle Eastern, I’d have said. Four minutes in, … Continue reading →

So, it’s been a while… But now I’m seriously pondering a bit more blogging action on this place. Good old Jon Worth has got the back end up to date for me, and I’ve just installed a new theme to … Continue reading →