As the European Parliament elections loom, the sheer horror of the Conservative Party’s idea of leaving the ‘mainstream’ EPP party bloc comes to the fore. I have written about this here. But behold now this onslaught from Tory Grandees, no less. The Independent is scurrying to catch up. The argument […]
Is here. It links to Brian Barder arguing against the very idea of any UK referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, and being struck that even many Labour List readers do not agree with him (Note: Barder long sentence advisory warning) Over on the always interesting Labour List blog, this post (reproduced […]
Eeek. According to Nick Cohen in the Observer the Cameron Conservatives are heading for the Outer Darkness: After the European elections, British Conservatives will leave the company of Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy, Fredrik Reinfeldt and the other moderate centre-right leaders who gather under the banner of European People’s party. Although […]
Part of the problem with the drama of expenses/corruption among Westminster MPs is that the very role of MPs and of Parliament is under heavy erosion. Take this for example (my emphasis added): The European Union now produces four major pieces of legislation every week, and a tide of other […]
The EU has not sat idly by as British democracy reels under the weight of its own loathsome misbehaviour. On 7 May the EU launched its new Eastern Partnership – an attempt to set up a new sort of structured relationship with the obviously (more or less) ‘European’ parts of the […]
Are there such things as distinct ‘races’ of human beings having distinct physical and intellectual (or even moral sense?) features? The classic answer is, these days, "Hell, no!" But what if DNA research did start to show disconcerting patterns – different categories of people could be identified with high levels […]
Via Samizdata, this Reuters piece describing how young French people are embittered by the system which makes employing people so expensive that employers take on new young staff only on temporary contracts: "There’s a war of generations and strong competition between the different age groups," he added. In the fourth […]
The latest BBRU tersely hosted by Matt Wardman is posted. Various handy links, including this to the vividly designed Andrew Ian Dodge website which in turn links to a fatuous EU Quiz. As Andrew points out, the eccentric questions are loaded in a trivially anti-libertarian way. Or is the EU […]
Many of you must have a lot of spare time on your hands these days, what with the Recession and all. But more than plenty is whirring away in Brussels and wider European activities. How to join the excitement? Here is a site Brussels Agenda which gives plenty of leads […]
The United States’ policy towards Cuba has failed. So says US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. And she should be in a good position to know, as her husband presided over this failing policy for eight years. Meanwhile equally ailing and failing Fidel Castro wants the USA to go even […]
