Realism from the Centre for European Reform.

@jonworth is right, again.

If you want to leave, we're not going to force you to stay.

A former British ambassador writes.

From @telegraph so it may not be true, but I hope it is!

Tory attorney-general is right.

The inhumanity of British disability bureaucracy.

Jon is exasperated.

Fascinating insider story of how Brown's premiership collapsed after three months.

Sikorski tells it like it is: why Britain needs the EU.

A little reality (in the Spectator of all places).

"Can't you, Mr Earl, understand the modern world?"

A political facebook meme that isn't true? How surprising. But I bet hardly anyone who reposted it bothered to check the facts.

With comments from prominent martial arts practitioner and ex-ambassador.

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

Holly on the UK's ludicrous "citizenship test".

Church and State see marriage in different ways; and Church and State are hopelessly tangled up.

Watch the tongue!!!!

Jason speaks.

Jon Worth decides that he cannot bear the prospect of running for the European Parliament as a Labour candidate in the UK.

It's dead for a generation at least IMHO.

Old news but I missed this good piece at the time.

Great polemic in Telegraph.

My mate Hugo explains what he does all day. (Gosh, I was at that reception last Wednesday too, though I don't appear in shot.)

"In the last two years British newspapers have been promising more or less the same thing to Eurozone citizens: collapse, soon." Yet it hasn't happened.

"imperious brutality and contempt."

The European Commission's attempts to counter UK media lies.

Defence of the ECHR.

Simon Hix (contra Jack Straw)