Current Affairs

Le Monde has a short interview with Guy Verhofstadt, Belgian Prime Minister, on his new book “United States of Europe”, which presents his vision for a federation of eurozone states. I haven’t read the book, so I don’t know how interesting the contents are, but I liked this

The coverage of the terrible Entwistle murders has shown up the difference between US and UK reporting standards. Whereas I generally assume that the US press will be more responsible than their British cousins, I was very surprised to read the presumptions of guilt and sweeping statements in the Boston

The NYT has a collection of doccuments showing the collective failure of US and state governments to prevent the disaster in New Orleans.

Nice illustration of speed camera hypocrisy in a story from today’s Argus. The residents of Brighton Road, Lancing, want speed restrictions on a stretch of dual carriageway where a pedestrian was recently killed. One resident said: “I’m not a big fan of speed cameras at all but if

E J Dionne at the Washington Post lays into the administration’s fiscal indiscipline, as exemplified by the recent Budget.

Just came across a section of George Orwell’s “Notes on Nationalism” that perfectly sums up George Galloway: There is a minority of intellectual pacifists whose real though unadmitted motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration of totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one

The forty different people Mark E. Smith has sacked from the Fall.

Repulsive self-publicist George Galloway, the MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, has shown exactly what he thinks both of his duties as a Parliamentarian and of his constituents by becoming a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother. Celebrity Big Brother lasts for 23 days, during which time the citizens of my

Does Russia’s action in restricting gas supplies to the West strengthen the case for nuclear power? A Fistful of Euros discusses.

Norman Baker, Lib Dem MP for Lewes, has just made Lewes DC’s ridiculous campaign against Falmer Stadium even more ridiculous. Apparently, because John Prescott has gone to see his team (Hull) play at Withdean, and has been given lunch by the directors, he should now recuse himself from every