As some of you may know from my previous postings, one of my responsibilities in Government is the Building Regulations. So far, so dull, right? On the face of it, you might be forgiven for thinking so, but the building regulations offer a number of key tools and levers to tackle the carbon emissions produced

The continued detainment of alleged dissident republican Marian Price has "unintentionally provided a recruiting tool" for dissident republicans, an SDLP MLA tells the assembly.

Telling Germans to work less, to borrow more, and to produce shoddy cars and machine tools is not the answer, writes Philip Stephens

The European Union will soon launch the European Citizens' Initiative, a new tool to enhance participatory democracy and dialogue between the EU institutions and citizens. Staffan Nilsson, president of the European Economic and Social Committee, is confident that the instrument will empower Europeans to deliver collective wisdom. More »

European Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič is confident that the Citizens’ Initiative, one of the new democratic tools pushed forward by the Lisbon Treaty, will bring Europe closer to its citizens and create a "genuine European public space". More »

European Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič is confident that the European Citizens’ Initiative, one of the new democratic tools pushed forward by the Lisbon Treaty and to be launched on 1 April, will contribute to bringing Europe closer to its citizens and create a "genuine European public space". More »

Michelle Obama: What do you give the woman who has everything? Is using Michelle's birthday to drive campaign contributions to Barack like giving your wife a vacuum cleaner for Valentines Day? I received this email from a friend of mine and while it is an interesting fundraising tool to say the least, it is tacky and wrong to say the most. I would gladly leave a birthday message but to do tha...

As emails were going around on the campaign to protect disability benefits, various people asked for simple tools that I've seen developed and used in the past for campaigning. And yet, there seems to be no resource for activists who aren't very tech savvy to grab, adapt and use fairly straight-forward activist tools.

As if we have not said it enough times already (and faced all manner of Xenophobe accusations from politically inept squirts) the leaders of Germany and France are using the European Union and Euro currency as their own control tool to dominate and control Europe.   They are pressing ahead with their aim to tax all banking transactions as French Minister for European Affairs Jean Leonetti sta...

When music is used as a weapon, a shopping aid or an educational tool, we lose sight of its ability to move us.