As one cannot help but notice, the fiftieth anniversary John F Kennedy’s assassination is almost upon us. As a seminal event in the emergence of a more radical style of politics in the 1960s, it is rightly remembered far beyond the shores of the USA. Much as I would like to explore JFK’s death and […]
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Yesterday’s confab between Geert Wilders and Marinne Le Pen on working together marks an important opening move in what is likely to be one of the most consequential aspects of next year’s European elections. By pulling together the Dutch and French groups, in addition to Swedish, Flemish and Austrian parties, Le Pen and Wilders have […]
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Whatever else you might think of the Russians sending the Olympic torch into space, you have to give them credit for thinking big. But what was the real purpose and what impressions are we left with? Undoubtedly, this was a PR exercise on a breath-taking scale and understandably so. Hosting the Olympics is, after all, […]
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The past week has been something of a trip to the past for me. For many years, watching eurosceptics and anti-EU groups was characterised by endless cries that they were fighting ‘the system’, outcasts who had seen the truth and railed against almost impossible odds. That idea of righteousness that underpins such a worldview is one […]
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While reading through the Guardian website last night, I stumbled across an article published on 9 October this year by its legal correspondent, Joshua Rozenberg. This piece, Never mind human rights law, EU law is much more powerful, related the findings of a UK court in the case of an unfair dismissal and discrimination claim […]
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It’s hard being a critical pro-European. I know – first world problems, eh? But really, the EU keeps making it so damn difficult. If you’re on the left, how are you supposed to feel about the forthcoming referendum on UK membership of the Union? Do you have to close your eyes, hold your nose, […]
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