{"id":954,"date":"2005-11-27T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-27T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/27\/113313301358947658\/"},"modified":"2005-11-27T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-27T23:02:00","slug":"113313301358947658","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/113313301358947658\/","title":{"rendered":"113313301358947658"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>It&#8217;s not often you get an accessible yet interesting programme on the EU appearing on the telly (cf. the abysmal shite that was <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/how_euro_are_you\/default.stm\">How Euro Are You?<\/a> a few weeks back), so tonight&#8217;s Panorama, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/panorama\/4476634.stm\">Battle for Europe<\/a>, came as a rather nice surprise. Read the overview in that link then &#8211; if you want a top-notch primer to the complexities of the on-going problem of the EU budget and economic reform presented in an easy to understand way that manages to avoid being either simplistic or patronising &#8211; head to the BBC&#8217;s website and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/programmes\/panorama\/default.stm#\">watch it online<\/a>. Well worth it if only to compare Jack Straw in interview to the various other high-up European politicians doing their talking heads bit &#8211; he comes across like a nervous idiot, desperately trying to bluff his way through an exam he forgot to revise for. Great fun.<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not often you get an accessible yet interesting programme on the EU appearing on the telly (cf. the abysmal shite that was How Euro Are You? a few weeks back), so tonight&#8217;s Panorama, Battle for Europe, came as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/11\/113313301358947658\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}