The polls for the Satin Pajamas will close tomorrow. Vote while you can.
We’re nominated for a Bloggie, but more importantly you can vote for us in the semi-finals of the Koufax awards, in the categories for Best Group Blog, Most deserving of Wider Recognition, and Best Series (for our Ukraine coverage). I will immodestly claim [...]

Further to Doug’s eloquently silent post of the 27th instant: I’ve only noticed it now, but Amitai Etzioni put up a remarkable essay on his website a couple of days ago. It’s the English translation of an article he published in the S?ddeutsche Zeitung. That article, which you will have to pay money to the [...]

The debate on the constitution is getting feisty. It’s clear that, at least among our readers, the constitutional treaty has fervent detractors.
Over to Mr Hamilton

The establishment of a Constitution, in time of profound peace, by the voluntary ocnsent of a whole people, is a PRODIGY, to the completion of which I look forward with trembling [...]

Photo from ?A History for Today? (Anne Frank House)

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They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life. He was a [...]

The Center for Applied Policy Research (CAP) has put up a page detailing the steps on the way to ratification for the European constitution. Green, yellow and red lights mark the status in each country, and the chart can be viewed by country name or by ratification date. Unfortunately, the page is only available in [...]

If you haven’t yet noticed, voting has now opened for the first AFOE European Weblog Awards, so you can now get voting.
And in other awards news, we’ve been nominated for Best Group Weblog in the 2005 Bloggies, so if you’re not completely tired of voting for stuff then please consider voting for us in that.

Tony Judt reviews three books about Europe and America in the New York Review of Books. He’s nothing extremely original to say, but he’s eminently, and refreshingly sensible. Go read it.
The general topic should be good for a discussion.

A happy ending for once. Has he died his hair brown?
Neeka liveblogged it. See my Ukraine Kinja digest for more blogospheric reactions.
(Added on Monday: I never got a round to publish my draft yesterday. Bollocks.)

It’s in German, but the idea behind this game should be obvious to everyone - it gives you a capital city and you have to ‘throw’ a dart to hit its location on the map. I was closest to the centre of Lisbon (just 18km out, which is effectively a direct hit, given the scale [...]

Neglected to note this at the time.

BELARUSIAN PRESIDENT PROMISES NO REVOLUTIONS. Alyaksandr Lukashenka said while attending an Orthodox Christmas service in the Holy Spirit Cathedral in Minsk on 7 January that there will be no revolutions in the country, Belapan reported on 8 January, quoting the presidential press service. Lukashenka’s assertion reportedly came in response [...]