VIDEO: "The power of Europe compels you!"
A new Greenpeace video shows a European parliamentarian fighting a CO2 monster in a Street Fighter battle. Seriously...
- 24 April 2013
EU power grab fatally undermines democracy
The devil is not only in the detail, but also in the concept. And here lies the problem with the EU
- 18 February 2013
Defending democracy: Does the BNP deserve your cash?
The BNP is wrong on just about every level, but so would be stopping its funding
- 25 January 2013
Labour Party opposed to cheaper healthcare for Europeans
Labour Members of the European Parliament continue to lobby against a move that would enable Europeans to obtain better and cheaper medical supplies
- 18 October 2012
Europe’s fine future as Greater Switzerland
There is a very different world on the horizon. A European corner in it that manages to keep anything like the standards and values of today’s Switzerland will be a superb achievement
- 17 September 2012
Brussels Diary: The fight for Dracula's gold and rights of the poor edition
Socialists do not tend to support things that might lose them their electorate. Keeping the poor poor is a standard trick of the left. What would they do if "ordinary people" were no longer dependent on them?
- 8 September 2012
Brussels Diary: Rainy gems from a European inbox edition
There's a message asking to nominate anyone eligible for the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen, awarded for making a valuable contribution to European unity. I think we should nominate Farage
- 1 September 2012
European culture: Is there such a thing?
We are not one united people and the EU cannot legislate us into such - so what of 'European culture'?
- 26 August 2012
BDS movement forcing Brits to pay more for medicines?
Anti-Israeli activists are once again lobbying against Israeli industry. This time to the detriment of European citizens too
- 31 July 2012
The Brussels Diary: Exeter edition
A week away from Brussels, spent in Exeter musing over higher education policy
- 27 July 2012
Will there ever be accountability in European spending?
For the seventeenth year on the trot, the Court of Auditors has been unable to sign off the EU budget. Sadly, it would have been a bigger shock if they were successful
- 14 November 2011
Bad leadership at the root of Europe’s worst peacetime crisis.
The blocked nature of politics in much of Europe, and the sclerotic processes of the EU, means that Europe is stuck with leaders deeply unimpressive by the standards of recent history.
- 28 October 2011
The ever rising cost of the EU
John Redwood MP argues that the EU budget is large, that it is getting larger and that it ought to be diminished.
- 3 October 2011
It’s Time to Phase Out Air Passenger Duty
Britain already pays exorbitant aviation taxes. With a new emissions tax added to current duty - will flying once again become the preserve of the super-rich?
- 26 July 2011
Danger of Islamic counter-revolution in Egypt is real
Fiorello Provera, Vice-Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, says we must open our eyes about the "Arab Spring"
- 20 June 2011
Latest on the blog
- Major incident in South London with reports of shootings and a beheading
- Saudi Arabia beheads Yemenis, displays corpses in public
- Swastika flag flies over Palestinian village
- VIDEO: BBC presenter slapped down over question of Farage's drinking and smoking habits
- VIDEOS: The Best of Galloway, May 2013
- NY Democrat pleads with Republican not to share document proposing confiscation of guns
- Sunday Times blood libel cartoon, on Holocaust Memorial Day no less
- Palestinian jailed for Facebook like
- 'Muslim Patrol' vigilantes attempt to control London streets
- Saudi cleric who raped and killed daughter receives small fine
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