May 14, 2007
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Armenian opposition sour grapes Despite the best efforts of the UK and US, the election goes the way of the ruling party, apparently with no fraud (tags: Armenia) Iceland government holds on to power By a one seat majority (tags: … Continue reading
May 13, 2007
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Polish court acts (fairly) sanely “Jerzy Stepien, the tribunal’s presiding judge, said the law’s scope had been too wide and that lustration should only apply to senior officials” (tags: Poland) Armenian elections A rough guide to past fraud and future … Continue reading
May 12, 2007
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Proportional Representation: lessons from Finland “It’s clearly a terrible way to rule a country. I wonder how we’ve managed to sustain it for 100 years.” (tags: Finland Elections) Peter Mandelson likes… David Cameron? Makes sense, I suppose… (tags: EU Conservatives) … Continue reading
May 11, 2007
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The EU’s appeasement of Russia Ignore the wildly inaccurate Ukraine stuff, the rest is quite interesting (tags: Russia EU) Northern Irish devolution 1 A mini roundup (tags: Ireland) Scotland and Proportional Representation People still don’t get it (tags: Britain Elections) … Continue reading
April 22, 2007
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Is up now at Siberian Light (ta Andy!) – loads of good stuff, from Moldovan web awards (yes, really) to the French elections. Speaking of which, it’s the long-expected Sarko/Sego runoff (my prediction of an additional last-minute surge for Bayrou … Continue reading
April 13, 2007
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This week’s latest film news gubbins is up at the Pocket Films Blog, with news and reviews about the rather impressive Curse of the Golden Flower (plus its director Zhang Yimou and star Chow-Yun Fat), as well as a bunch … Continue reading
March 10, 2007
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1) A handy short explanation of why I’ve been writing about the EU constitution here a lot recently. 2) A new bilingual blog aggregator type thing from new(ish) French news channel France 24, designed to provide an insight into the … Continue reading
March 5, 2007
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British politics has lost one of its most selfless and positive contributors. More: My Society, No2ID, Chicken Yoghurt, Devil’s Kitchen, Tim Ireland, Blood & Treasure, and many more – from right across the political spectrum.
February 26, 2007
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Some lass from the University of Hamburg has asked nicely, so here’s a link to her survey about continent-wide participation in “Euroblogs”, which apparently should only take about 15 minutes or so to fill out (I’m going to give it … Continue reading
February 21, 2007
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Something from me over at The Sharpener…
February 21, 2007
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Looks like Soj of Flogging the Simian (and formerly/occasionally of European Tribune) is going to be back in Romania and back blogging pretty soon. This is known as a Good Thing.
January 20, 2007
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With this week’s ongoing introspective spat in the UK political blogosphere Fifth Estate (of which I have got so bored I’m afraid I’m no longer paying any attention whatsoever – sorry, chaps), it’s been easy to forget the quality that’s … Continue reading
January 17, 2007
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But this is actually very funny. One of Guido’s best posts in a while, in fact. (See here and my initial response here for those who are lucky enough not to get what’s going on. It’s a blog war, folks … Continue reading
January 9, 2007
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Gary Andrews, formerly of Coffee and PC (to which I won’t link, as he deleted it and the address has been taken over by hardcore porn merchants), has a new blog. Well worth a gander. The new blog, not the … Continue reading