"You are being hierarchical." "I did not know that that is a perjorative word!" Mark Steyn in full flow.
"You are being hierarchical." "I did not know that that is a perjorative word!" Mark Steyn in full flow.
What does it mean when it is said that the rate of inflation in Eurozone country X is greater than in countries Y and Z? Nothing? The fact that prices are going up is not in itself inflationary. The market expects or even in fact is prices going up and down. […]
The Polish media are reporting that Polish local government employees dealing with applications for EU funds are quitting their jobs to join the private sector, where pay is much higher. No surprise. The Polish Development Minister told me a while ago that the greatest problem Poland faced in spending its […]
As the UN warns of mass starvation in Zimbabwe the time has come to stop talking about the ‘Zimbabwe elections’ as if they were/are elections. What we are seeing are the deranged throes of a violent gang around and including Mugabe aimed at staying in power at any cost to […]
Is Kosovo moving towards ‘functional partition’ (or more likely dysfunctional partition)? The nub of the international problem in Kosovo is that on the one hand the EU/US claim to rule out on principle partition on ‘ethnic’ lines, while on the other they claim that the independence of Kosovo is not in […]
Let’s look a bit more closely at Will Hutton’s arguments on the EU Treaty as published yesterday in the Observer. He denounces ‘Eurosceptic’ celebrations at the Irish vote as a farrago of lies and disinformation. OK. Let’s proceed. WH v CC. WH: The reality is that Ireland’s ‘no’ voters have […]
Battle is being joined on what happens next with the Lisbon Treaty following the irish No. The Irish are saying that there can be no quick solutions. The French and Germans are calling for everyone other than the Irish to ratify. The Czechs are saying that the Treaty is dead. […]
Crack open the Guinness! Behind all the lamentations about the end of European civilisation as brought about by a selfish micro-number of Irish voters, there will be lots of secret smiles. One of the key issues in the whole Treaty saga has been reweighting the voting as between EU member states. […]
The EP Culture Committee blogging menace nonsense (below) points up a factor in the Lisbon Treaty which is not really discussed. Namely that as more and more ‘areas’ become subject to voting rather than consensus at the EU level, member states lose two things: the right to block at the […]
Irish voters! Read this terrifying piece describing how the Culture Committee of the EU Parliament wants to deal with Bloggers "with malicious intentions or hidden agendas" who "pose a danger". Then go and vote. You know which way.
