In the eyes of the EU elite, the greatest impediment to ‘the European project’ is the continued existence of the pesky electorate.
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Spiked 9 hours ago (via spiked-online.com)
A new round of shelling in Syria’s third city kills about 50 more people, most of them civilians, activists say
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FT 2 days ago (via ft.com)
Every day things are getting worse in Syria. Today the Syrian regime started what looks like an all-out assault on the key city of Homs, reportedly killing more than 200 people. The attack took place as the UN Security Council prepares to vote on a draft resolution backing an Arab call for President Bashar al-Assad to give up power. The problem has been the lack of information about events on the ...
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Spectator 4 days ago (via spectator.co.uk)
Ed Miliband will open a new front in his war on excessive City pay on Friday, as he calls for curbs on bonuses at banks that have not required government bail-outs.
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Telegraph on 2nd Feb 2012 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
A West Yorkshire MP is arrested in connection with an alleged assault at a service station.
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BBCPolitics on 2nd Feb 2012 (via bbc.co.uk)
Anyone looking for evidence that the current Conservative/Liberal Democrat government in the UK has the same tidy, but severely limited intelligence of its predecessor need do no more than read this story suggesting that thousands of jury trials held in the country could be axed to save what appears to be a relatively paltry sum, when measured against the dangers and cost to individuals of being w...
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Samizdata on 16th Jan 2012 (via samizdata.net)
We took a severe beating in late 2010, from which we’re still not entirely recovered. From here, we can go in two directions: we can build a Higher Education policy that we can be proud of, or we can leave our policy in the pieces it’s currently in, and prepare for 2015’s brutal assault. It’s
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 16th Jan 2012 (via libdemvoice.org)
The consensus that top bosses get paid too much is really a way of selling the idea that all society is too greedy.
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Spiked on 10th Jan 2012 (via spiked-online.com)