Islam in Europe (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Brussels: Europe & Islam: Whose Identity Crisis? Europe & Islam: Whose Identity Crisis? Hosted by Sajjad Karim MEP. Thursday 19th November 2009 - 10:30 to 13:00 European Parliament, Brussels In a continent of diverse cultures how people choose to identify themselves is becoming increasingly important; whether through nationality, religion, language or political outlook. Can these identities...
Windows Vista Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Coming to TechEd EMEA? Well make sure you stop by the Springboard or Talking About Windows booths! Why? Well, in addition to all the cool information on Windows 7 we have to share with you we have tons of cool opportunities and prizes! Talking About Windows booth Attendees who find the Talking About Windows Video crew and record their thoughts about Windows 7 will have the opportunity to win prizes....
Irfan Ahmed (Free subscription) | yesterday
Iain Dale has set of a meme on the Internet of who you would have at your political dinner party, Iain has identified his 11 people over at his blog. This has then lead to Nick Thornsby to do a post on the subject , heck I have decided to run a post on my blog below. So my 11 people would be: Boris Johnson Lembit Opik Sajjad Karim Nick Clegg Ming Campbell Alex Hilton Iain Dale Afzal Anwar Tony Greaves...
A Brief Encounter (Free subscription) | yesterday
This from the News of the World : TODAY we name TWO MORE money-grabbing Tory Euro MPs who are cashing in on the great Brussels gravy train first uncovered by the News of the World. Top Tory John Purvis has siphoned up to £1MILLION of public cash meant to pay staff into his own firm. And a second Tory MEP, Sajjad Karim, will face questions after paying his wife £26,000 A YEAR out of the...
Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
(above : the sharpest media manipulator money can buy…in the state of Idaho) OK, that’s not actually what the Western Athletic Conference is advocating. I think. But ESPN’s Graham Watson reports the WAC has enlisted the services of Boise-based PR firm Scott Peyron & Associates to assist their efforts in promoting no. 7 Boise [...]
Irfan Ahmed (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
It seems Chris Davies has wrote about how he once got arrested and charged for having a gram of Cannabis on him whilst protesting outside a Police station, this led to him getting fined for about £3000 including the court costs, etc. Moving on from this bit of history Chris Davies has wrote about how he has got some cannabis from Amsterdam, put it in the post to give it to a 91 year old lady...
CCS Wire (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Here FYI a link to the DG TREN documents on MEP Chris Davies’ website.
Heismanpundit (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Graham Watson of ESPN.com makes a good case here. But no quarterback in the country has put up better numbers or been more clutch than Houston’s signal caller. So while everyone’s trying to dig up names of Heisman Trophy candidates, the best choice has been leading the nation statistically all year long. I’ll write it again: The [...]
The Birddog (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Hey Ausiello, Write another e-mail to Graham Watson this week.
Irfan Ahmed (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
According to reports by the BBC , 11 Councillors out of a total 15 have resigned from the Council following criticism from a Blogger, all I can say is, this is the best thing I have ever heard in a long time! How can criticism on a blog lead to a 11 out of 15 Councillors resigning, come on, I have been criticising Sajjad Karim, Andrew Stephenson, Lord Rennard and Gordon Prentice alongside other politicians...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
The head of the European Union's Election Observer Mission to Mozambique, Fiona Hall, has denied that the mission is involved with or sympathetic towards any particular candidate or party standing in Wednesday's general and provincial elections.
Adrian Smith (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
Normally, at this stage of a newly elected parliament, the major task is to hold individual hearings of the 27 candidate Commissioners who would have been proposed, one by each national parliament (or government, in truth). But this cannot happen because the Lisbon Treaty is still not in effect. If the President of the Czech [...]
VoIP Weblog (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Bang & Olufsen this week introduced the BeoCom 5, an extremely stylish two-line combined VoIP-and-landline phone. "The dual-line DECT phone works both as a twin landline handset and as a VoIP device, and magnetically docks either onto its charging plinth or onto a portable speakerphone (that also charges the handset)," writes SlashGear's Chris Davies. "There’s also a 2-inch...
Green Reading - Adrian Windisch (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
This year UKIP doubled its policies, from just the one to a total of two. Now in addition to just 'blame the EU for everything' they now also 'blame migrants' too. They have strayed into bnp territory, and must hope to pick up some of their supporters. This week some ex army leaders criticised extremist parties for using WW2 images . The media associated this with the bnp, but again UKIP were there...
Independence Home (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Chris Davies has been getting hot and bothered because a resolution in the European Parliament was voted down by just 1 vote thanks, so he says, to Conservative and UKIP MEPs. The resolution apparently called for the European Parliament "denounce pressure and intimidation against Italian and European newspapers by the Italian ...
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