Overcome with emotion
It’s been a strange week for statements about the European Union and why we should support it. Government ministers here and in Brussels have been musing on the issue in […]
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The path of agile decision-making
How should international organisations take decisions? The case for Qualified Majority Voting has just signed up its newest recruit, John Craddock. General Craddock is Supreme Allied Commander Europe, which makes
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The EU’s roots are showing
Daily Telegraph environment correspondent Charles Clover reported last week on the failure of a bid by environmental pressure group WWF to overturn EU fishing policy in the courts. The complaint
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The difficult case of Frederick Toben
It is often the case that an individual case can serve as an illustration of quite a profound point, and the arrest of Dr Frederick Toben is one such. Dr
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Britain: where did it all go wrong?
Daily Mail columnist Quentin Letts has published a list of the “50 people who buggered up Britain”, complaining about various aspects of modern life and the way things have changed.
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Economic giant and political dwarf
At a discussion this evening on the state of the European economy and the prospects for economic reform, an elegant point was made that something profound has changed within the
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How Europe takes financial decisions
The Daily Telegraph kindly published a letter from me today on the unfolding financial crisis, but edited it so as to delete the main point I was trying to make.
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How to get out of the credit crunch
An enquiry responding to the previous blog post on the credit crunch here asks, if the case for international action is proved, what that international action should be. And would
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How to survive the credit crunch
With the vote by the US congress to kill the fatted calf and bail out the banks on Wall Street, the global financial crisis has finally passed out of the
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And welcome back, Peter Mandelson
As one hate figure for the right departs the stage, another returns, with the appointment of Peter Mandelson as secretary of state for business. The newspapers describe this as a
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