Thursday 18 March 2010

Nosemonkey

Nosemonkey is J Clive Matthews, a freelance writer/editor and the chap behind the surprisingly popular Anglo-European political weblog Nosemonkey’s EUtopia (formerly known as Europhobia). In the real world, he writes professionally on everything from trash TV to high politics, his work appearing in publications as diverse as the Times Literary Supplement and sci-fi mag Starburst.

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Europe

“No one under the age of 52 has had the chance to vote on the (...)

So runs the argument of increasingly prominent anti-EU Tory, Daniel Hannan MEP - still advocating a UK referendum despite the final ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. This is, of course, very true. Since the 1975 referendum on EEC membership, the British (...)

5 nov. 2009 | | Nosemonkey

Europe

First Europe, then... the world ?

A few vague thoughts towards predicting a new global geopolitics : Globalisation has been the undeniable trend of the last half century. As transportation and communication technologies have advanced, the world has got smaller. You can now get from (...)

28 oct. 2009 | 4 comments | Nosemonkey

Europe

Why it’s hard to take eurosceptics seriously

There are many, many good arguments to be used against the EU. Scores of them, in fact. In places it’s massively inefficient. In places there are strong indications of what seems like systemic corruption. Some of the policies it has introduced have (...)

5 oct. 2009 | | Nosemonkey

Europe

EU regionalism on the decline ?

Following my recent posts on national vs European identity and regionalism and the EU (as part of a vague attempt to get an idea of the nature and importance of geographical/cultural identity), this may be of interest - Why the end is nigh for regionalism (...)

3 sep. 2009 | 1 comment | Nosemonkey

Europe

UKIP’s new Europe of Freedom and Democracy group

The old eurosceptic Independence/Democracy group in the European Parliament was kept more or less respectable largely thanks to the influence of its former joint leader Jens-Peter Bonde, who stemmed from the relatively moderate lefty side of (...)

3 jui. 2009 | | Nosemonkey

Europe

German Constitutional Court Lisbon Treaty ruling

Another small hurdle for the much-beleaguered treaty to overcome : the Act Extending and Strengthening the Rights of the Bundestag and the Bundesrat in European Union Matters (Gesetz über die Ausweitung und Stärkung der Rechte des Bundestages und des (...)

1er jui. 2009 | | Nosemonkey

Europe

The dishonesty of the EU debate

Over at his Economist blog, Charlemagne asks “Why it is anti-EU to suggest that the European Parliament does not work very well ?” Herein lies one of the most fundamental problems of the EU debate - something to which I seem repeatedly to (...)

18 jui. 2009 | | Nosemonkey

Politics

Is there a UKIP / BNP partnership ?

Buried away in the middle of an article about UKIP’s efforts to win over middle-England in today’s Sunday Telegraph : Accusations of racism are nothing new for Ukip. Last November a pro-BNP group stormed into a meeting of the party’s (...)

2 jui. 2009 | | Nosemonkey

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> Karadzic arrest: It’s not that simple

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(xxx.xxx.xxx.132) 29 July 2008 15:47

I’m hoping to be proven wrong, I really am. But I still can’t see this as much more than a stunt designed to gain short-term advantage.

Wasn’t aware of your blog before, by the by - will add it to the EU Blog Directory if you like. Quite hard to work out which Blogactiv blogs are going to keep being regular at the moment...

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