Archive for the 'Europe' Category

 

England Expects in silence

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Via Mr Eugenides, I see that a blog, England Expects, written by a press officer, Gawain Towler, for the European Parliament Independence and Democracy Group, which includes UKIP, has been effectively shut down.
While it appears he may have been in a technical breach of the rules, I would submit that the rules appear to be [...]

 

Irish ayes aren’t smiling

Monday, June 16th, 2008

With apologies for the awful title, I have a post on Europe after the Irish referendum up at the Wardman Wire.
xD.

 

The most influential post-war figure

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

James ‘Nourishing Obscurity’ Higham asks:
“Which individual has had the most influence on humanity worldwide since WW2, such that if they had not been around, human history would have had a significantly different outcome”
I don’t really subscribe to the ‘great man’ theory of history, but I think someone who doesn’t have enough prominence and who most [...]

 

Is Britain a small country?

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

The Times has published the top fifty countries from Jane’s list of stable and prosperous countries. The top eight are, in order with their populations in brackets, the Vatican (800), Sweden (9.1m), Luxembourg (480,000), Monaco (33,000), Gibraltar (29,000), San Marino (30,000), Liechtenstein (34,000) and the UK (60.5m). If Sweden is included, those countries are less [...]

 

An extra bank holiday

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

I have signed the following petition on the Number Ten website and ask you to consider doing the same. At the time of writing, it has more than four hundred thousand signatures.
By comparison to many other European Countries, Britain has fewer public holidays and none at all for a period of some three months between [...]