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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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