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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]