A friendly reader points out this story about moves to tighten regulation of Brussels lobbying, as moves continue apace to make EU agricultural funding more transparent. Both initiatives should be welcomed by all sides – after all, both pro- and … Continue reading →

I’d been trying to find a link about this story on and off all day. Basically yet another of these “former advisors” of Tony Blair who seem to pop up every now and again has emerged from the woodwork, and … Continue reading →

Especially if you’re a blogger, by the sounds of things. Would you like to help shape The Times’s election coverage? Do you want to write for Times Online during the campaign? If you are a reader of The Times or … Continue reading →

After yesterday’s update on Ukraine, where protests at alleged vote-rigging back in November (eventually) managed to attract the entire world’s attention, it struck me as particularly odd that I’ve heard nothing about the very similar-sounding protests going on over alleged … Continue reading →

Having asked, via the interweb during the Labour party conference, a question of Tony Blair (that being “Why don’t you fuck off and apologise for Iraq, you twat?”), I seem to be getting propaganda direct to my inbox. All fine … Continue reading →

Via Nick Barlow, an interesting post guaranteed to raise some heckles, but with many pertinent points to make about certain American attitudes towards Europe, Islam, and the future of the EU: “many of these American ‘conservatives’ are actively wishing for … Continue reading →

Busy, so a quicky. Blogging EU Commissioner Margot Wallstr�m has launched what is described as (in typically overly-convoluted EU style) “an information note identifying the components of a structured communication and information strategy on the Constitution to support the ongoing … Continue reading →

Asylum. A load of fuss about nothing. “The number of asylum seekers arriving in Europe has fallen to levels last seen in the late 1980s” – in the UK, asylum applications have fallen by 61% in the last two years … Continue reading →

There’s been a lot of fuss recently over the EU ending its ban on selling arms to China. Being a wishy-washy liberal peacenik, I’d personally like it if we could ban arms manufacturers. That not being likely to happen any … Continue reading →

US sounds alarm on human rights, But critics say US guilty of torture by its definition. Interestingly, the report includes a number of key US allies – Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Russia – among the list of those … Continue reading →

But there’s now some “about this blog” style information to the right there. Every now and again some people seem to get confused about motivations, the fact I write under a pseudonym and such like – that might prevent such … Continue reading →

One thing that always makes me chuckle going through London these days is the announcement you always get on the tube: “In this time of heightened security…” Of course, the very fact that they have to make such an announcement … Continue reading →

Busy working out fancy HTML code and stuff. Have some interesting bits and pieces: How British and American conservatives united to stop Bush endorsing the EU constitution as favour to Blair The race to ratify the European Union constitution is … Continue reading →

Right people, I’ve found out a handy way to keep this thing looking a bit tidier, so now archives are to the right in funky little drop-down menu things (click and they shalt appear). I’m probably going to expand this … Continue reading →