"The old notion of one-man, one-state citizenship looks outdated: more than 200m people now live and work outside the countries in which they were born—but still wish to travel home, or marry or invest there."

The Bosnian dairy industry.

Resigning Tory MEP clarifies situation.

This is crazy: Bryza excellent choice, vetoed for no good reason.

"shows more than 80,000 populated places in blue and about 350,000 locations of IP addresses in red. White dots indicate places where many people live and many IP addresses are available."

Superb.

@lobjakas: Repeating the course of history in the 1930s, Estonia's foreign policy focus is shifting away from the anglophone powers.

Q: What do you think most about during the day? A: Women. They are a complete mystery.

Sums up the problems with it (entertaining to read the dissenting views from diehard G+ fans).

Twelve member states criticise European External Action Service for being useless.

No comment necessary.

"I do not need to prove anything to anyone!"

Wow.

Fascinating and brutally honest analysis of Norway's role in the Sri Lanka conflict.

As most people know there are three principal pronunciations of “scone”.

"for normal people" - or so they say.

"the most interesting thing in my office is a little grey box, which contains the only copy we have of Stephen's hardware voice synthesiser. The card inside dates back to the 1980s and this particular one contains Stephen's voice. There's a processor on it which has a unique program that turns text into speech that sounds like Stephen's, and we ha…

I am here as Benedict Cumberbatch’s violin coach...

includes pics of Arthur C Clarke aged 20 but looking 10.

"...it's OK for a serious journalist to like Doctor Who and interview Matt Smith, because this is safely different from all that horrid sci-fi stuff: 'Surely there are parallels with Douglas Adams – one of the early Who writers – who later, in Hitchhiker's, created a universe to explore not science fiction but the human condition.' "

Don’t try to ride in your brother’s clothes “to see how it feels.” Don’t scream if you meet a cow. If she sees you first, she will run.

Perhaps this all sounds fantastical, absurd, and more than a little nuts. We couldn’t agree more. That’s one of the reasons we love conspiracy theories — the more awesomely insane, the better.

Today’s great information technology goes out onto the streets with us on our smartphones. It does not only convey information from top to bottom, but also from bottom to top and side to side. It continues to convey information, however, from top to bottom. A lot of information. In the internet age, those at the apex of politics, business or civil…

Actually also includes the Tintin museum in Louvain-la-Neuve (good call, IMO).

I do hope he does well in Iowa.

Five new members for the EFD group.

"while I wish him nothing but failure, I also regard him as one of the most formidable and effective politicians not just in Britain but Europe."

Northern Ireland plc has plenty of real economic and social problems to deal with without debating changes to the machinery of government that won’t take place any time soon. Alasdair was right to nix such a pointless debate. The SDLP needs to use its limited airtime on topics more likely to get more people to vote for and join the SDLP.

The last thing the U.S. government has wanted (or wants now) is actual democracy in the Arab world, in large part because democracy will enable the populations’ beliefs — driven by high levels of anti-American sentiment and opposition to Israeli actions – to be empowered rather than ignored.

Cameron's allies dwindling...