May 16, 2007
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Herzog’s EU plans DJ Nozem on yet more proposals for EU reform (tags: EU) Moldova, Romania and Ukraine A journey on the EU’s forgotten frontier (tags: Ukraine Moldova Transdniester Romania) Anti-Semitism in Europe Myth or Reality? (tags: Europe) Ukraine and … Continue reading
May 15, 2007
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Ruling coalition on verge of collapse The aftermath of the Icelandic elections (tags: Iceland) Russia cafe blast leaves 10 dead It wouldn’t be the run-up to Russian elections without a few “terrorist” incidents… (*ahem*) (tags: Russia) Bertie Ahern An interesting … Continue reading
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
May 9, 2007
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The main content’s now dark on light, which should be rather more readable. I’ve added a linklog (sparse at the moment, but won’t be for long), because I rarely have time for full posts these days but keep spotting interesting … 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 18, 2007
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Registry corrupted beyond belief by a nasty trojan thing, and unable to fix it thanks to not having a system disc / Windows CD (the joys of buying from Dell is that they seem not to supply these, and it`ll … 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
April 10, 2007
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I’d got annoyed with the thing, so have made a few changes – some more obvious than others. The Snap preview things have gone, as even I’d begun to find them irritating. The main column’s got wider, and the font … Continue reading
April 4, 2007
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I’ve just knocked up a quick website (free of charge and hosting chucked in, naturally) for a rather nice little charity run by a friend of the family that’s aiming to provide residential accommodation, day care, training and work experience … Continue reading
March 11, 2007
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Ahhhh… Those were the days… And it all led to this: “our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators. Since the days of Halaka your city and your lands have been … 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