"a great example of an increasingly democratic EU beginning to work rather well."

Official BBC story.

Waiting for the Big News...

Headline of the month!

Another images/maps game - cool.

Once the most densely populated place on Earth, now abandoned.

The awful story of the Brussels-Amsterdam high speed trains.

The Marshallese foreign minister writes. (Don't bother reading the comments...)

"Over the past five years, there’s been exactly one fatal crash of a US airplane."

BBC catching up with this story at last.

with radar animation.

Jo Walton on writing

Euroscepticism, political opportunism and a European Commission ‘own goal'.

@RozKaveney's poetic obituary.

Nice 7/8 piece of music, with nifty space video.

The lies in the British EU debate.

In the US: Sophia v Emma, Mason v Liam/William.

"The crisis in Mali once again exposed the hollowness of European military pretensions and lack of common purpose."

A more positive story from academe.

Philip Sandifer isn't going to take it any more.

Some of these jokes are very venerable indeed - Roy Jenkins as King John XV!

Might it not be cheaper just to give people the money?

@telegraph's dismay at war on disabled.

The Twitter defamation judgement.

Old footage, new analysis.

A poetic take on Wikipedia.

The truth behind the story.

The FT explains that we are, in fact, doomed.

Peter Birks on the proposed mortgage guarantee scheme.

...in English law anyway.