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War is hell
The reports of the massacre in Haditha are the definition of a shock but not a surprise. Some US marines deployed in Iraq are killed by a roadside bomb and […]
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From chaos to cosmos
By way of contrast with the speech by Tony Blair, and to prove that this blog is not always critical of politicians, let me refer you to the recent pamphlet […]
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Failure in his own terms
I thought when I saw the advance billing of Tony Blair’s speech at Georgetown University last Friday (which you can read here) that I would have some interesting thoughts on […]
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Loss of EU vetoes
By Richard Laming Published in the Telegraph, 26 May 2006 Sir, If, by advocating a “population-based veto”, the Conservative MEP Charles Tannock (letter, May 25) means that small EU member states […]
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Connected
One of the basic laws of ecology is that everything is connected to everything else. The same is true in federalism. I was prompted to write this by a news […]
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Guantanamo all along
I’m not sure what to make of Prime Minister’s Question Time yesterday. Asked about the closure of Guantanamo Bay, Tony Blair said “I agree that it is an anomaly […]
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Welcome back, Geoff Hoon
The government reshuffle earlier this month saw Geoff Hoon return to the post of Minister for Europe. He has held the job before, for three months in 1999, since which […]
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Present at the creation
John Parry reviews “The accidental constitution”, by Peter Norman (published by EuroComment, Brussels), and “The struggle for Europe’s constitution”, by Andrew Duff (published by the Federal Trust) From the start, […]
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Parallel realities in the 21st century
A review of “Succeeding Revolutions – 18th Century America and the 21st Century World”, by Ian Hackett (ISBN 0-9552454-0-0, London 2006), and “Siyasa Shariyya, The anthropology of Injustice – The […]
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Ruth Kelly
As the film of The Da Vinci Code is about to open, attention has unsurprisingly returned to Ruth Kelly. You may recall that she is the cabinet minister rumoured to […]