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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 […]
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Apologising for slavery
Straying from the discussion about the EU institutions for a moment, my eye is caught by the report on a debate about slavery in Bristol (read it in The Independent […]
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One seat
A new website has been launched, with a campaign for the European Parliament to be based in Brussels rather than to have to keep moving to Strasbourg for plenary sessions. […]
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The war is nearly over
An intriguing report by the BBC earlier this week that Britain’s war debts are still being paid off, but will be cleared by the end of the year. (Read the […]
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A bit of good
Local elections yesterday. I spent a few hours knocking up, that is going to visit supporters of the party in their homes to remind them to go out to vote. […]
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The centralising curse of UK Treasury rules
By George Irvin Britain’s public finance is highly centralised by the standards of the European Union and the OECD. The degree to which tax revenue is centralised is far higher […]