Gorgeous George
22 May 2005 Last week’s visit by George Galloway to the US Senate has provoked a lot of coverage in the British media, but hardly for the right reasons. He […]
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Supranationalism
One of the first things I learned about the etiquette of debating politics on the internet was that the first person to mention Hitler is deemed to have lost the
Some notes on the general election
10 May 2005 Now that the election has been concluded, what lessons are there for the debate about Europe? Who won, and who lost. Two items of good news for
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Bananas
A comment was posed on this blog a few posts ago, when I was writing about free trade, asking why the European Union had made it an offence, punishable by
Happiness
Tolstoy wrote that “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Perhaps something similar applies to the debate about Europe. All Yes voters are
About Wolfowitz
It seems that Paul Wolfowitz will be accepted as new head of the World Bank, after nomination by President George W Bush. It’s not the place of this website to
Rules
I was at a meeting of the European Movement yesterday to discuss its internal rules. Not the best way to spend a day of glorious sunshine but sometimes an organisation
What makes trade free?
17 March 2005 A regular complaint about the EU, in the comment section of this blog and elsewhere, is that it is unnecessary. All that is needed is free trade,
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What does it mean to be a pro-European?
9 March 2005 I annoy a lot of my opponents in debates by calling them “anti-European”. It is a description they reject, but that does not stop me using it.
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War and European integration
My earlier posting about the causes of war seems to have raised same eyebrows. I promised to explain. The point I made was that previous wars in Europe were caused
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