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Britain’s Blind Faith in Intelligence Agencies – but why? 22 Aug 2013 | 08:15 pm
Spiegel Online has an interesting article today in English entitled “Britain’s Blind Faith in Intelligence Agencies“. I agree with the title, and conclusion of the piece, but it poses one major questi...
For The Times and The Telegraph, the royal baby is more important than the David Miranda case 20 Aug 2013 | 03:56 am
Alan Rusbridger has this evening written a most extraordinary column on The Guardian’s website about the pressure exerted on the paper by British security services. We are now about 27 hours on from w...
The design of a politician’s Twitter profile 16 Aug 2013 | 12:39 am
Danish Minister for Development Cooperation Christian Friis Bach has been coming in for some heavy criticism today on Twitter (his account is here) for his statements about Danish aid to Egypt. As a r...
If Gibraltar wants to solve its border headache with Spain, it should join Schengen 10 Aug 2013 | 02:50 pm
So the Spain-Gibraltar border dispute rumbles on. Queues at the land border to enter Gibraltar persist, and suggestions abound that Spain may introduce a charge to cross from Gibraltar into Spain. Mea...
Twitter service / placeholder accounts 27 Jul 2013 | 05:33 pm
Following a few gripes about whether some of the accounts I’ve registered on Twitter in the past break Twitter’s Rules, here is a response. First of all, what accounts do I own that fall into this ca...
Only the law can properly decide Twitter abuse cases 27 Jul 2013 | 04:12 pm
So here we go again. In response to abuse and threats directed at Caroline Criado-Perez it’s people like @bmitchellwrites saying it’s “Time for Twitter to stand up for women abused online“. Some of hi...
What percentage of cars manufactured in the UK are exported to the rest of the EU? 26 Jul 2013 | 11:43 pm
I’ve been deluged with a load of bile on Twitter today about exports of cars manufactured in the UK to the rest of the EU (see here, here and here). There is even the line that “sales to the EU are so...
Revisiting politicians and Facebook – what makes a good Facebook page for a politician? 26 Jul 2013 | 04:29 pm
A few weeks ago in Brussels I had a cup of coffee with Roberta Metsola. Since April 2013 she has been a MEP after the resignation of Simon Busuttil. Roberta and I studied on the same Masters programme...
Taking the train rather than the plane for business travel in Europe: does it work? 25 Jul 2013 | 02:45 pm
Anyone who follows me on Twitter will know I take the train for almost all my journeys, and many of these are business trips. Sean Hanley has asked me to sum up my experiences in a blog entry, so here...
S/he who frames the case wins the argument on the EU 23 Jul 2013 | 02:24 pm
According to Philip Stephens in the FT “Facts finally collide with ideology on Europe“, as his column gives solid backing to the FCO’s Balance of Competences review. The reports are “shorn of ideology...
