The Making of Europe; A Geographic Treatment of the Historical Development of Europe
Daniel1979 Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Here is my latest recommended reading list. Please note, I do not necessarily agree with these posts and articles, however I found them sufficiently interesting to warrant a recommendation: William Rees-Mogg says that the EUsceptics are the real friends of Europe. Tim Collard is mad with the bankers for wanting to end free banking in the UK. The Mail was the first mainstream paper to...
Carson's Post (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
One of the reasons science isn’t getting its message across on Global Warming is that it doesn’t have a PR department. The best map I could find to tell the story of +4ºC Global Warming is so small it’s almost unreadable. But it comes from a credible source, William Rees Environmental Scientist at the University of British [...]
Denverstrope (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Obviously I'm in total agreement with the great William Rees-Mogg, who gave us a terrific, clear-headed and wise article in the Times this morning, when he says that Brown should not cling on to power. It's definitely worth reading, not least because his assessment of the several possible outcomes of the next election, according to polling evidence, all point only to one conclusion (as...
EconomicPolicyJournal.com (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
By William Rees-MoggThe Lisbon Treaty was finally brought to ratification last week. The Conservatives decided not to call a referendum, which could not have blocked the treaty now it has been accepted by the Czech Republic. Illogically perhaps, Euro-sceptics ought to welcome the treaty, if only for its awfulness. The treaty with its imperial ambition, its new status in law, its president,...
Pension Pulse (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
William Rees-Mogg of the London Times asks which will come out on top: paper or gold? : Last week the price of gold rose to $1,100, the highest ever recorded. Gold is still an important measure of the world economy. The theory of the 19th-century gold standard was that gold was “real money” in the same way as landed property was “real estate”. All types of paper...
A View from Rural Wales (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Been reflecting on the weekend media's response to David Cameron's policy statement following the decision of the Czech President, Vaclav Klaus to complete the Lisbon Treaty's ratification process. Not sure what to think. Best column, in my opinion, was William Rees Mogg in the Mail on Sunday . Like me, he thinks the sheer deception which has been employed by the EU to avoid any sort...
Events dear boy, events (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Last week William Rees-Mogg had splendid article on the probability of a hung parliament and the possibility of one of the Milibands or Harriet Harman becoming Labour leader. This week all that is forgotten. Miliband is off to Europe, Cameron is heading for Downing Street and Mandy will become leader of the Labour party. It is this small matter that needs to be dealt with. For Mandy to...
monochrom (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Samir Amin writes: Our Ecological Footprint by Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees (1996) instigated a major strand in radical social thinking about construction of the future. The authors not only defined a new concept — that of an ecological footprint — they also developed a metric for it, whose units are defined in terms of "global hectares," comparing the biological...
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
This could well be the tipping point in Britain’s relations with the EU. We’ve swallowed a great deal in the interests of solidarity with our neighbours in Europe. The acceptabity of the EU as a whole is wearing extremely thin. Blair could be the last bloody straw. Christina ================================= MAIL ON SUNDAY 25.10.09 WILLIAM REES-MOGG: Why do they think we want...
Events dear boy, events (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
From time to time William Rees-Mogg, the great defender of Richard Nixon, pops-up with an article worthy of consideration. Today is one of those occasions. After dismissing Brown and wondering why Labour has not already taken the necessary action to change their leader, he takes a reality check on the polls: Labour cannot reasonably expect to win the next general election, whatever Labour...
Barnacle Bill (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
... experts serving out there. Probably their work was too dangerous for the Times reporter to follow! William Rees-Mogg is arguing that NuLabor should aim for a hung Parliament at the next general election using a change of leader to achieve this. Interestingly he proposes that the Prince of Shirt-Lifters has his own personal reasons for not allowing OGUL to be thrown out of No. 10....
