Europe, International
Love in a time of Anguish
Posted on July 29, 2011 by Ruth Cape | 2 Comments
Ruth lives in Tromsø, and writes from Oslo. “Kjærligheten vil vinner over hatet” ”Love will win over hate” So were the words of a young Utøya survivor. The Mayor followed on to assure that this small city in this small country would not give in to fear and prejudice but would respond with even more [...]
Breivik, Blogging and How Not to Study Terrorism
Posted on July 26, 2011 by Gilbert Ramsay | 5 Comments
Claims in early editions of newspapers following the appalling attacks in Norway last Friday that an Islamic group had claimed responsibility have led onto a flurry of accusations regarding the Islamophobia of the media and the experts on which it depends. I have to admit to a measure of sympathy in this case for the [...]
Tory MEPs wreck vote to upgrade EU emissions targets.
Posted on July 5, 2011 by Alasdair Thompson | No Comments
A report calling on the European commission to move “as soon as possible and before the end of 2011″ to increase CO2 emissions reduction targets from 20% to 30% by 2020 was today voted down by the European Parliament after it was hijacked by amendments from centre-right MEPs. Despite claims from David Cameron that the [...]
Dick of the Year: Bertie Ahern
Posted on December 31, 2010 by Admin | 1 Comment
This is a nomination for Bright Green Dick of the Year by Peter Geoghegan. Voting will open tomorrow. Bertie Ahern, former Irish Taoiseach. Got $50,000 to spare and fancy a laugh? Well why not hire former Irish Taoiseach – and my nomination for Dick of the Year – Bertie Ahern to deliver the motivational talk [...]
Dick of the year: Nicolas Sarkozy
Posted on December 29, 2010 by Admin | No Comments
This nomination for the Bright Green Dick of the Year award is from Jim Jepps. Normally, we only accept nominations for people who’s dickishness has fallen within Britain. However, the scale, and proximity, of this nominees dickishness is such that we have decided to accept (also we didn’t make the rules clear). If we’re going [...]
People Economics: Against the European Austerity Doctrine
Posted on December 21, 2010 by Nishma Doshi | 3 Comments
Irish Budget: Key Questions on the Economic Collapse
Posted on December 9, 2010 by Peter McColl | 6 Comments
By Peter McColl and Alasdair Thompson What has happened in Ireland? Ireland this week passed an emergency budget that has both cut public services and increased taxes. It comes after a 2 year period of austerity following the collapse of Irish banks in 2007. So how did this happen? It started when the level of [...]
UKIP and the Culture War
Posted on March 16, 2010 by Peter McColl | 14 Comments
I was surprised to find that Godfrey Bloom, the UKIP MEP for Yorks and Humber had been running his re-election campaign on the basis of climate change denial. This seemed odd to me. I thought that UKIP were a party promoting withdrawal from the EU. But then you should never judge a party by its [...]