It’s been radio silence here for a while. Sorry about that… Here’s some gubbins to make it look like I’m still alive… Continue reading
May 21, 2008
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Category Archives: Misc
May 1, 2008
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London elections – my vote, for those interested
Due to hating the party system, today I shall take great pleasure in not voting based on the colour of the rosettes – not least because the Lib Dems have inexplicably adopted UKIP’s colour scheme of yellow and purple, making … Continue reading
April 21, 2008
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links for 2008-04-21
The Lisbon Treaty – 6 questions “My confusion exists on a whole bunch of levels. So bear with me as I try to disentangle them and lay them before you in a discrete manner, as opposed to the Escher-designed gordian … Continue reading
April 17, 2008
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Coolest thing ever Not least because one of the engineers has the gloriously Pynchonian name Wayco Scroggin… (Yes US army prototype-Gundam robosuits have nothing to do with the EU, but I want one.) (tags: Random) EU parliament under fire for … Continue reading
April 16, 2008
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Irish MEP assaulted after Lisbon Treaty meeting It seems tempers are starting to flare in Ireland ahead of their referendum on the treaty. It seems I should look westwards for a change – especially as I’ve got a book review … Continue reading
April 15, 2008
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Blogging about blogging
Someone got in touch to ask some questions about citizen journalism and my coverage of the July 2005 London terrorist attacks… Continue reading
April 11, 2008
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On flawed online political quizzes
Unlock Democracy (an offshoot of Charter 88) are normally fairly good, nicely liberal chaps with a genuine desire to help. But I take serious, serious issue with their London Mayoroal election quiz, designed to determine which candidate you should vote … Continue reading
April 10, 2008
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“The most dynamic and competitive knowledge-based economy in the world” – maybe not “the picture for the EU is quite terrible. Bulgaria ranks lowest of the EU 27 – 68th place, below… El Salvador, Uruguay, Barbados, Tunisia, Egypt and Costa … Continue reading
April 8, 2008
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Anyone else having problems with Wordpress 2.5?
I’m getting a load of “you do not have permission to do that” errors and appear no longer to be able to add custom fields to posts, or edit their timestamps, which is somewhat irritating. What with Firefox also having … Continue reading
April 8, 2008
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Most Danes want Euro Interesting shift in public opinion going on in Denmark, by the look of things. Are the Danes becoming less eurosceptic? (tags: Denmark economics Euroscepticism) Montenegro’s Vujanovic wins re-election “We’ll work together for our European future,” Vujanovic … Continue reading
April 7, 2008
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Who’s Your Candidate? “The campaign for a transparent and democratically elected President of the European Commission” – Hurrah! I’m sure that (for once) we can all agree this is a good idea. (via Our Kingdom) (tags: EU) Putin’s Mixed Signals … Continue reading
April 6, 2008
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A bit of admin
I’ve just upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress, so if anything’s gone weird, that’s why. Let me know if you spot anything – ta! Also, I’ve started filling out the country/region specialists part of the Nosemonkey’s EUtopia Netvibes Universe, … Continue reading
April 4, 2008
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‘Historic day’ in Cyprus as another border crossing opens Good stuff. But reunification will pose some difficulties without Turkish EU membership… (tags: Cyprus EU Turkey) Fitna review Finally saw this the other day, and agree wholeheartedly with this line from … Continue reading
April 3, 2008
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Ahern resignation raises EU Treaty hopes The cynic in me wonders if there wasn’t a deal done. Ahern has, after all, been mentioned in connection with the EU presidency. It’s not like corruption would disqualify him… Santer Commission, anyone? (tags: … Continue reading