Framing Beppe Grillo
Over a coffee after State of the Net in Trieste, Luca Conti (@pandemia on Twitter) posed me a question. “What do you [meaning non-Italians] think of Beppe Grillo?” It’s also…
Tag Archives: Framing
The post-national case for the EU
The ‘eurorealist’ pressure group Nucleus in the UK has rebranded and is now the Centre for British Influence Through Europe (CBIE). I read the name and it immediately rankled, and a…
“We’re standing up for Britain” or “We’re all in this together” – ways to explain the EU budget
A tweet by Emma Burnell pointed me towards this blog post by Tracy Hill about UKIP, and the threat they pose to Labour. You can read the whole blog post…
No-one’s going to believe Labour is “hard-headed” about the EU, and it’s wrong anyway
So Labour has another stab at getting together some sort of EU policy. Ed Miliband is interviewed in The Sunday Telegraph and the only thing that seems to emerge is…
If you’re British and care about UK-EU relations, then you’re either in a state of permanent delusion or permanent depression
Two grandees of UK politics were at it again today. Peter Mandelson, while at least acknowledging an in-out referendum for the UK, was nevertheless pompous and deluded in the FT:…
The hard working family (that framing nugget on budget day)
It’s budget day in the UK today. Others are far more qualified than I am to discuss the ins and outs of what George Osborne announced. I will instead –…
The European Union and truth
Apologies if this is stating the obvious to too many of my readers, but there is no truth about the European Union. The words sound simple enough. But what do…
Where has the pro-EU camp gone? Maybe the project is harder to defend these days?
Daniel Korski has written a short piece at Spectator Coffee House entitled Where has the pro-EU camp gone? It’s a valid question to ask, if you view UK politics along…
