Dealing with illness.

Andriessen vs UKIP. (I sort of hope they will both lose.)

The UUP leader's flexible rhetoric.

Saw the whole 50-min performance last night - excellent.

"Working in 90-minute intervals turns out to be a prescription for maximizing productivity."

@StefanLehne: "Today, two years after the EEAS became operational, the record is uneven"

@StefanLehne: "Today, two years after the EEAS became operational, the record is uneven"

"How has the European External Action Service (EEAS) functioned in the EU institutional architecture in the first two years of its existence?" Indeed.

"perhaps I wrong the contributors to this volume by suggesting that half of them were either phoning it in or just bloody bad at writing."

Strangely fascinating and frustrating

Or, how broken is the US Senate?

Andrew in one of the world's more mysterious places.

Regime favoured by the West getting away with blatant human rights violations - as usual.

Fascinating.

Maria on the Magdalenes.

Writing the wrong sort of novel gets you in trouble.

Swiss journalist forces renaming of prize which commemorated Nazi propagandist.

Prediction that SNP failure to back equal marriage means they think they'll lose the referendum

More reports from the front line of the war between the UK govt and the disabled.

Indeed.

It is an earthly paradise, and only deluded fools think otherwise.

Arresting the opposition is the way to go!!! (Ilgar Mammadov is quoted,though not named)

Human Rights Watch reports in detail on Ilgar Mammadov and Tofig Yagublu.

Agramunt and Debono Grech speak out too.

EU concerned by arrests of Ilgar Mammedov and Tofig Yagublu.

Council of Europe Secretary-General speaks on arrests of Ilgar Mammadov and Tofig Yagublu.

My former colleague İlgar, imprisoned by Әliev's goons on bogus charges.

Good news.

I hope this isn't wishful thinking!

I had no idea!