Former foreign minister speaks.

Looks at the cartographic history of the Syrian state. Fascinating.

Marvelous.

Hooray!

Beautiful!

:-(

I come out 51%/49% - balanced or confused, rather than separatist or unionist!

May 2012 was "the 327th consecutive month in which the temperature of the entire globe exceeded the 20th-century average". Read.

Latest Amnesty International statement

#cy2012eublogs next Thursday.

International relations guru Anne-Marie Slaughter gets personal.

Roger Ebert: "This would be an excellent time for our political parties to join together in calling for restrictions on the sale and possession of deadly weapons. That is unlikely, because the issue has become so closely linked to paranoid fantasies about a federal takeover of personal liberties that many politicians feel they cannot afford to adv…

Interesting discussion of Greenpeace's anti-Shell campaign.

Amazing.

How to stop people voting the wrong way - don't let them vote at all!

Because sometimes politics is about real stuff.

Big discounts this weekend only!

A conservative Republican is converted by experience of the Canadian system.

"One reason I blog and comment less on blogs is that I read mostly on my phone or iPad, and typing is a nuisance and linking is a pain."

"Last year, the government of Georgia held a session of the cabinet in a grotto named after the mythical martyr of humanity, Prometheus."

The slide begins to accelerate...

A Moroccan writes.

I disagree with several of these!

Sorry about the crisis, time for bed!

W.T Cosgrave re-opens the GPO (1928?) after it had been restored following the 1916 Easter Rising.

Bid to bring the World Science Fiction Convention to London in 2014 is going well!

A Blake's 7 / Bernard Cribbins mashup. What more can you ask for?

"the new member-states will have few reasons for wanting to spend political capital on supporting UK demands for exemptions from EU legislation"

"shiny glass buildings, sleek lime green waiting areas and touch-screen computers do not alone a democracy make."

Hmmm....