Lessons from WikiLeaks
The classified documents leaked from the US State Department will cause a lot of embarrassment for a lot of people – the British government minister denounced as a “hound dog” …
The classified documents leaked from the US State Department will cause a lot of embarrassment for a lot of people – the British government minister denounced as a “hound dog” …
by Daisy Cross The expenses scandal did much to expose the less attractive side of British politics, the steady, unrelenting trickle of data leaving no party unaffected, and many believe …
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One of the intellectual fashions of the moment is crowd-sourcing, that is the idea that good ideas and useful information can come from the population as a whole rather than …
By Richard Laming EUOBSERVER / COMMENT – You can tell a lot about a political system from the buildings it erects to house its decision-makers. They provide a literally concrete …
A news story in EUobserver last week on the plans for a new building for the Council of Ministers reminded me of the issues we raised the last time the …
A new publication denounces the European Union’s Brussels establishment (or perhaps that should read Establishment) for its contemptuous attitude towards the public. Bruno Waterfield and Chris Bickerton are critical of …
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. …
By Richard Laming Published in EUobserver, 30 January 2008 The meeting in London on Tuesday between the government leaders of Europe’s biggest economies called for more transparency in the financial institutions, …
A report from the House of Commons European Scrutiny committee earlier this month complained about the procedure that had been followed in drawing up the new Reform Treaty. It objected …
Janet Daley wrote in the Daily Telegraph earlier this week (read it here) that the British people will not “accept rule by unelected continental bureaucracy and ministerial fiat, which is …