{"id":1559,"date":"2007-05-12T07:21:53","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T07:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/12\/links-for-2007-05-12\/"},"modified":"2007-05-12T07:21:53","modified_gmt":"2007-05-12T07:21:53","slug":"links-for-2007-05-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/links-for-2007-05-12\/","title":{"rendered":"links for 2007-05-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/noguidinglight.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/one-party-rule-rules.html\">Proportional Representation: lessons from Finland<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;It&#8217;s clearly a terrible way to rule a country. I wonder how we&#8217;ve managed to sustain it for 100 years.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Finland\">Finland<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Elections\">Elections<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/openeuropeblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/ego-has-landed.html\">Peter Mandelson likes&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">David Cameron? Makes sense, I suppose&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Conservatives\">Conservatives<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/shiftmag.eu\/index.php\/?toc\">Shiftmag issue 2 is out<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">On borders and nationalism<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/EU\">EU<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetout.com\/news\/article.html?date=2007\/05\/09\/3&#038;navpath=\/news\/\">US Envoy to speak at anti-Gay Polish summit<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Nice one, land of the free &#8211; publicly supporting bigots<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/US\">US<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Poland\">Poland<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/2007\/05\/10\/africa\/france.php\">Sarkozy&#8217;s Mediterranean bloc<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Makes a certain amount of sense, that &#8211; a sign that Sarkozy may like a multi-tier EU?<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/France\">France<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2007\/05\/10\/the-nations-not-so-blest-as-thee\/\">Blair&#8217;s Americanism again<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">On that &#8220;greatest nation&#8221; nonsense<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Britain\">Britain<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Labour\">Labour<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/atlanticreview.org\/archives\/661-Europeans-are-taller-than-Americans.html\">Europeans &#8211; bigger than you<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Ha! Look at those tiny wee non-Europeans scurrying around like ants! We are GIANTS!<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Europe\">Europe<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk\/9\/2\/1.html\">A Eurovision Song Contest primer<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">The politics behind the voting: explained in quite terrifying levels of academic detail<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Europe\">Europe<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/englandexpects.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/there-are-eurosceptics-and-eurosceptics.html\">Eurosceptics vs. Eurosceptics<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Some anti-EU types are too batty even for the anti-EU types&#8230; (Gets really good around number 25)<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Euroscepticism\">Euroscepticism<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/edwardlucas.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/estonia-under-cyber-attack.html\">21st century warfare<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Russia versus Estonia on the internet<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Russia\">Russia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Estonia\">Estonia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pocketfilms.com\/blog\/\">This week&#8217;s movie news<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">Up now at the Pocket Films Blog: featuring Robert Carlyle, Daniel Auteuil, Joseph Feinnes and more<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Movies\">Movies<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/18614278\/site\/newsweek\/\">Bosnia&#8217;s mass graves<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">To keep in with today&#8217;s Balkan theme, an interview with the director general of the International Commission on Missing Persons<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/Nosemonkey\/Bosnia\">Bosnia<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.netlexfrance.com\/weblogs\/?p=23156\">Blair&#8217;s real legacy: Sarkozy&#8217;s France?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">After Blair&#8217;s meeting with Sarkozy today, could\/should Blairism cross the Channel? 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