Via an excited Brad DeLong and the Crooked Timber crew, I am informed that Google is beta testing a

Oh my, they actually did it.
Last Night, the Speaker of the Commons, Michael Martin, invoked the (1949)

This blog doesn’t usually resound with praise for the far-sighted wisdom and diplomatic cunning of the Bush administration. (Neither does my own blog, for that matter.)
So I thought I’d be a bit contrarian, and point to a recent episode where Bush, or Colin Powell, or undersecretary of state Marc Grossman, or /someone/, [...]

1944-45. Nazis arm Soviet POWs who are promising to topple Stalin and who then turn around and liberate Prague from the Nazis, only to be turned over to the Soviets after the war ends. Nothing is as simple as it seems.
Vlasov’s forgotten army
Communists buried legacy of Soviet General Andrei Andreyevich Vlasov and his battalion of [...]

Former EU Commission candidate Rocco Buttiglione is apparently actively working to reduce the political damage caused by his remarks about homosexuality being a sin. Yet his strategy seems a little erratic. After reaching out to the social right last week by declaring his desire to build an influential conservative Christian political movement in Europe, like [...]

Despite not being entirely satisfied with the revised team, it was expected that the European Parliament would endorse Jose Manuel Barroso’s second Commission proposal with a large majority in order not to further weaken the Commission, the Parliament’s “natural” institutional ally.
And that’s what happened today. With Rocco Buttiglione and Igrida Udina out, Franco Frattini and [...]

Matt discussed Jeremy Rifkin’s book on the ‘European Dream’ last month, and just as a little update to that discussion there’s an interesting article on Salon (subscription or viewing an advert required), discussing both it and T.R. Reid’s The United States of Europe. (link via Daily Kos)

It’s no secret that the euro is now hitting record highs in its exchange rate with the dollar. It is also pretty apparent that some EU leaders are becoming rather preoccupied about the consequences of this for those eurozone economies which are driven by exports. What is much less clear though is what can be [...]

“This is a crime. Even God will not accept it.” And God, we know, is willing to put up with a lot.
I don’t think there’s anything to be said beyond the obvious about the death of Margaret Hassan: This person sounds like a real heroine, it amazes me that two or more people can [...]

The Independent has an interesting article today entitled ‘Why will a quarter of Spain be supporting England tonight?’ (for those of you who aren’t aware, there’s an international football friendly tonight between Spain and England in Madrid) which looks at how the Spanish national football team is not supported by many of the people of [...]