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   rose22's Blogs in October 2008
Women and Europe - two steps forward?
In the last few weeks, I've joined two separate campaigns (firstly via Facebook, then via their own websites) calling for at least one of the top 5 jobs in European politics to go to women. "Females in Front" and "Send2women" are completely separate but are calling for the......Read More
Posted on: 2008-10-03 18:05:00 |  Rating: | Views: 171 | Comments: 0 | Tags: women  politics  Europe  EU  UK  government  Commission  reshuffle  FCO  trade  policy  Females in Front  Send2women  feminism  Mandelson 
Mary Poppins joke
sorry, sorry in advance... but it made me laugh.  I get an email every couple of weeks or so from a shoe website I've bought from www.lovethoseshoes.com . They send me news about special offers etc. but the best thing is the really appallingly bad joke at the bottom of each......Read More
Posted on: 2008-10-03 18:22:32 |  Rating: | Views: 294 | Comments: 1 | Tags: joke  mary poppins  funny  comedy 
Loaf of Bread to give away
I'm all for practicality.  If you do one of those personality tests that divides people into activists, reflectors, theorists and pragmatists I'm an activist-theorist... if I can see how something's been concluded I want to do something about it. Now. So I was very impressed when after......Read More
Posted on: 2008-10-05 08:57:18 |  Rating: | Views: 153 | Comments: 0 | Tags: bread  food  free gift  give away  discipleship  religion  God  faith  Jesus 
So I won't be a Commission Official... revisited?
A while back, some friends and I sat the concours, the entrance exam for the EU institutions.  All of us were professionals working daily on EU processes, all of us spoke at least two European languages with a good degree of fluency.  We'd done the job we were applying for already......Read More
Posted on: 2008-10-07 04:46:33 |  Rating: | Views: 362 | Comments: 0 | Tags: EU  politics  recruitment  career  job  official  Commission  EPSO  concours  entrance exam 
Constitutional Geekery
Hmmm.  Since posting this  http://www.thoughts.com/rose22/blog/women-and-europe-two-ste ps-forward-158888/ about Baroness Ashton's nomination as the new European Commissioner from the UK, I've had the opportunity to read some of the other commentaries. Oh dear. Two main schools......Read More
Posted on: 2008-10-07 17:18:55 |  Rating: | Views: 141 | Comments: 0 | Tags: constitution  geek  politics  EU  UK  Lords  Commons  Commission  Commissioner  Europe  peer  peerage  precedent  legislation 
Should be clear now - there is NO EU SUPERSTATE!
I've lost count now of the number of times I see any blog or online article on the EU followed up by comments along the lines of: - the EU is a conspiracy of (insert name of any group individual does not see themselves as part of); - the EU wants to take over Britain and force us to......Read More
Posted on: 2008-10-07 18:20:07 |  Rating: | Views: 182 | Comments: 0 | Tags: EU  Europe  superstate  politics  credit crunch  financial crisis  UK 
Trust and fear - what happens next?
I think I'm going to need to rewrite this a few times, but would welcome comments to help me on the way... Watching the news over the last few weeks has really brought something home to me. We're watching what looks like the end of the free market capitalism that has ruled political......Read More
Posted on: 2008-10-13 18:44:10 |  Rating: | Views: 174 | Comments: 1 | Tags: politics  finance  society  social policy  family  regulation  markets  communism  capitalism  trust  fear  faith  religion  business  Fukayama  Thatcher  credit crunch  financial crisis  barometer 
Wishful thinking on the Euro?
It's amazing what you can find if you read around a bit.  A Daily Mail blogger (Benadict Brogan) reports a Bloomberg online report of an article in the German news paper "Rheinischer Merkur".  I found it via Iain Dale's Diary. Here's the German original......Read More
Posted on: 2008-10-16 16:15:00 |  Rating: | Views: 113 | Comments: 0 | Tags: politics  EU  Europe  euro  eurogroup  credit crunch  global financial crisis  translation  google translation  bloomberg Jean Claude Juncker interview 
ITV in informing public shocker
Can hardly believe it - ITV has launched an online TV channel MyEurope to actually give some proper coverage of European issues fora UK audience. http://www.itvlocal.com/london/myeurope/ It's not perfect, but at least it's there in the run up to 2009's European Parliament elections. ......Read More
Posted on: 2008-10-19 11:36:38 |  Rating: | Views: 97 | Comments: 0 | Tags: Eu  Europe  television  politics  political coverage  TV  ITV  ITVlocal  internet television 
The Atheist on the bus...
... is shortly to be a reality.  A little while back ( http://www.thoughts.com/rose22/blog/atheism-dawkins-delusion s-and-the-no11-bus-120785/ ) I wrote about a friend of mine getting fed up about all the "christian propaganda" invading everyone's lives with posters, street......Read More
Posted on: 2008-10-21 16:00:00 |  Rating: | Views: 145 | Comments: 1 | Tags: belief  religion  faith  christianity  atheism  Dawkins  Darwin  bus  advertising  humanism  Alpha 

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