@RTaylor_MEP speaks out!

Sometimes, says the expert.

Myself I think it's cool that the next three kings will be odd-numbered (C3, W5, G7) following three evens (Ed8, G6, Eh2) who followed three odds (V1, E7, G5).

Volume 1.

The reread begins.

Article is less starry-eyed and more hard-headed than the title. "Many Israeli politicians claim that any pressure is counterproductive and negatively impacts peace efforts. Well, they would say that. But not only is it an obviously self-serving argument, it is also wrong."

..and all 11 @Labour senators say they will vote against their 2011 manifesto commitment.

'I get infuriated by people who say, "Oh, just eat lentils." Not everyone wants to eat lentils.'

Why the fall of ATOS is not automatically a good thing...

EU conniving in plunder of natural resources from the occupied Western Sahara (again).

World leaders on Twitter

A year in the natural world in our home village; lovely.

"the 1996 TV Movie is, to an unbiased eye, quite clearly closer to the post-2005 TV series than any other piece of Doctor Who to that point."

"UK politics is post-enlightenment, post-fact and post-truth".

There's nothing like democracy (and this isn't much like democracy).

Not a perfect match, but interesting,

Sane commentary from @caronmlindsay.

The Rolling Stone article about the Boston bomber.

Published on a day when they will be ignored...

Good God.

featuring such riveting titles as Electrification, Revolution, Reds vs. Whites, and Maneuvers: A Game for Young Pioneers.

General knowledge quiz from 1894

Struggling to pass the buck, on a good day to bury bad news.

"this novel -- not to labour the point, but a book *published in 1939* -- is precisely about an ingenious though sadistic plot to isolate a number of clever, mostly affluent but *fundamentally wicked* people on an island, and dispose of them."

Not quite, apparently.

Daniel Levy (@ecfr) on EU getting it right, for once.

Interesting and largely (but not wholly) sympathetic piece.

A European take on Snowden.

...shared by Republicans.

One to watch...