Time for another episode of ‘Debunking Dorries’ in which your genial host – me – takes a look at some the claims made by Nadine Dorries in support of her campaign for greater restrictions on access to legal abortion…
…and then takes them apart.
And for your delight and delectation, its two for one night on Debunking [...]

As the analysis of the votes on the Treaty of Lisbon continues to filter in, it looks very much like all the leaders of the main political parties have had their problems in the House.
Pride of place, of course, goes to Nick Clegg of the Lib Dems, whose performance of late more than vindicates the [...]

I’m rather in two minds about the current right-wing feeding frenzy over the Indy’s obvious lifting of material from a Foreign Office press release for an article on ‘10 myths about the EU [reform] treaty’.
You see, on the one hand, its not as if the Indy doesn’t have a bit of previous form for slavishly [...]

I suppose it was inevitable:
MP demands Eurovision vote change
The Eurovision Song Contest voting system needs to be changed because it is “harmful to the relationship between the peoples of Europe”, an MP has said.
Countries voted for their neighbours rather than the best songs, Liberal Democrat MP Richard Younger-Ross said.
And the BBC should insist on voting [...]

From the Beeb:
The European Commission is to propose more majority voting on police and justice matters.
The proposals, to be presented on Wednesday, would shift the legal basis for decisions in areas including terrorism and organised crime.
Up to now decisions in these areas have been made by unanimous agreement among the 25 member [...]

I Don’t often post much on the subject of Europe but thought I would repost here my comments from a debate at Samizdata on Blair’s offer of concessions on the UK’s rebate.
The basic hypothesis here is that there may be more to Blair’s offer of concessions than first meets the eye.
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Right now, Blair is in [...]

First it was Non. Then it was Nee. And now it seems it could be ‘We want our currency back’ as at least one Minister in Berlusconi’s Italian government has started making noises about a referendum to bring back the Lire – also in the Times.
Is this a another serious threat to the European Project [...]