Europe Day films
Tomorrow is Europe Day, and to celebrate the European Movement UK is holding a day-long festival of European film at the Prince Charles Cinema in central London.
Anthony Zacharzewski
There goes the neighbourhood
A Starbucks is being opened on St James’s Street, a muffin’s throw from the God-like Red Roaster.
Unfortunately, I expect it will do alright.
When wind turbines ... KILL
The IPPR have just published a report saying that immigrants from the new member states are going home – and that many never intended to stay long-term. Checking out the Daily Mail to see what their spin on the story was (they didn’t mention it), I saw this headline that
Page 123
Commissioned by Paul to:
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.
So, the nearest book is Republicanism: a shared European heritage by van Gelderen and Skinner
More hate-filled deceit from the Sun
Amazingly, the Sun has published a not-entirely-accurate story about the EU. Report at Strange Maps.
Memory and forgetting
A fascinating article by Tony Judt at the New York Review, entitled What Have We Learned, If Anything?, discusses how despite numerous memorials, the history of the 20th century is being misremembered, if it is remembered at all. Judt’s focus is particularly on the US, and its different experience
Domestic flights aren't necessary
I note from a report in this weekend’s FT that when business travellers booked on domestic flights with BA were rebooking during the Terminal 5 screw-up, 50% of them chose rail as their mode of transport. Which makes me think, first, why weren’t they going by rail in
For xenophobes and numismatists
The Royal Mint has shown off its new coin designs, reports the Guardian, and they are pretty grim. Designed to look like bits of the royal coat of arms, that perfect symbol of everything British, the coins’ design works when they are arranged in a rather odd pattern (see the
Bagel Delight Bakery, Cricklewood
A bit of a hidden gem this, on the Broadway in Cricklewood near the Crown hotel. Great range of cakes, all very fresh, and good coffee.
Compensation for T5
Interesting but not surprising that the BBC Q&A on the rights of those stranded at Heathrow leaves until the third screen any mention of the fact that the rights derive from EU legislation. If it had been straight bananas, it would have been “new EU rules” in the