I’m at the London event of the European Citizens Consultation today, filling in at the last minute because one of their “experts” dropped out at the last minute. It’s been a great event. You have 100 randomly selected Brits in a room, talking about what they want the EU to do. You might expect aContinue reading “Ask”
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The Mighty Quins
I had my first taste of season-ticket-holding Rugby League this weekend, when I headed to the Twickenham Stoop to watch Harlequins absolutely walk all over Warrington Wolves – 60-8 was the final score and 4 of those came from a try that was an individual run longer than the length of the pitch. Good stuff.Continue reading “The Mighty Quins”
Come home
I was at the Royal Court Theatre last night, at the invitation of their Development department. I saw two things – Over There by Mark Ravenhill and Wall with David Hare. What a night – one of the best I’ve had since moving to London. The two pieces were very different. The first is about identicalContinue reading “Come home”
Sisters are doing it for themselves
Nice to know I’m doing my bit for advancing the women’s cause, according to Rowenna Davies’ piece on “blogosphere or blokeosphere“. I also spent the morning getting the car MOTd, which involved some very tricky manouevring to back it out of the car port, which I managed to do all on my own, without aContinue reading “Sisters are doing it for themselves”
Posts are like buses…
and here’s the third of the day! Just wanted to post something I read on the BBC website, Stephen Fry talking about the web on the Analysis programme. I really liked the way he put this: This is an early thing I said about the internet at the time things like AOL were still huge.Continue reading “Posts are like buses…”
I want to break free
Libertas have launched their UK election campaign today. It’s an interesting one. There are various things about it that strike a chord with me – a pan-European political party, aiming to respond to (or create?) a European demos, rather than focussing on national issues; a call to ensure that European institutions work effectively – itContinue reading “I want to break free”
Kuneva webchat – 13 March
To mark the 10th anniversary of European Consumer Day, EU Consumer Commissioner Meglena Kuneva host a live webchat on 13 March 2009 (at 15h00 CET) with citizens from across the EU about their rights and their concerns as consumers. Chatters from across the EU will have the chance to ask the Commissioner direct questions onContinue reading “Kuneva webchat – 13 March”
Nothing else matters
Like I think pretty much everyone in the whole wolrd except Michael O’Leary, I couldn’t believe the reports that Ryanair are thinking about charging for use of in-flight bogs. Is that actually legal? But there is a good side – the endless creativity and humour that people can bring to bear to these kind ofContinue reading “Nothing else matters”
Girls on film
My feet aren’t on the ground today, because of yesterday’s brush with celebrity – I was at a party with Simon Le Bon!! I was at the relaunch of the Whitechapel Gallery last night, because it is part-funded with European money and we were paying for the reception. It was already amazing being at theContinue reading “Girls on film”
The Sound of Silence
I’ve been very remiss about writing the blog recently, but as I pointed out previously, there’s a fine balance between being busy enough to have something to write about, and being too busy to find the time. We’re missing several members of staff at the moment, for a variety of reasons, so its been mayhemContinue reading “The Sound of Silence”