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“Swift and concrete answers please… “

The European commission’s vice-president, Viviane Reding, has sent a letter with seven detailed questions to the US attorney general, Eric Holder Jr, demanding explanations about Prism and other American data snooping programmes. Here are the seven questions....

Droning on and on…

I’m trying to love you all, really I am. There’s a website I love to bits called Consume Consume. It consists of nothing but hundreds of strange, quirky, funny and invariably moving, photographs. The images are all captivating, but the thing that really...
The Fat Air Traffic Controller

The Fat Air Traffic Controller

Brussels (inevitably) in a tail-spin Can’t wait to see how this pans out in the UK national press: the European Commission is about to unleash its ire by legally challenging member states for not implementing a significant change to air traffic control....
Jews go home

Jews go home

That got your attention, didn’t it? Not unlike the article in the Guardian, written by someone who calls himself Dani Dayan (whom I assume to be a cross between the head of the Israeli armed forces and their next attempt at Eurovision). This kind of thing is...
French Fried Movies

French Fried Movies

You can’t give it away… I used to think that maybe it was me. After all, Philip French is lauded far and wide as one of the great movie reviewers, writing for one of Britain’s great broadsheet newspapers and every now and again collecting an award...
The Internet is to blame

The Internet is to blame

Late last night, just before climbing the wooden hill to Sleepyville, I was having a brief-but-deep conversation with the missus about the usual: how utterly stupid the world appears to be. Like, how most of the people of Europe seem hell-bent on buggering up the EU;...