Interesting news (via Randy McDonald) concerning a partnership between the European Space Agency and Russia to develop the Russians’ new Kliper reusable space shuttle.
It’s all but official?Russia and Europe will soon embark on a cooperative effort to build a next-generation manned space shuttle. Speaking at the Paris Air Show, in Le Bourget, France, in June, [...]

Other blogs covering this live:
Europhobia
Tim Worstall
Perfect
Bloggerheads
Normblog
Yorkshire Ranter
I’ll add more as I find them

As the UK goes to the polls today, I feel the need to make a statement. A few weeks ago, I promised that I would deliver some posts to this blog regarding the election. Now, some of you may believe that because these posts have not appeared, I should make an apology, but that would [...]

After several months of ‘phony war’, the worst-kept secret in British politics was finally revealed today - the next UK General Election will take place on May 5th, just four weeks away.
I’ll try and find the time to post on Fistful during the campaign if none of my colleagues manage it, but I’m also posting [...]

I don’t know enough aboutAustrian politics to comment much on this, but I thought Fistful readers would be interested to know that Joerg Haider and several others have left the Freedom Party to establish a new party, the Alliance for Austria’s Future.

Yes, I know sometimes it seems as though my job here at AFoE is to lower the high-minded tone with discussion of inanities, but there’s another interesting story about the Eurovision Song Contest today, namely that Lebanon - who were intending to make their first entry into the competition this year - have now withdrawn [...]

Well, I guess someone has to lose. But, as someone said when we saw we were up against BoingBoing and others for Best Group Weblog, it’s nice to be nominated. Congratulations also to Zoe for winning Best European Weblog.
….David weighs in:
Congrats also to my man Francis, one of my favorite bloggers, who finally won best [...]

It’s been announced today that France is to hold its referendum on the Constitution on Sunday 29th May.

Two of the topics that produced some of the most posts on Fistful last year - the Eurovision Song Contest and Ukraine’s Orange Revolution - have come together. Of course, we already knew that this year’s contest would be in Kiev but now Ukraine has chosen ‘Razom nas bagato!’ (Together we are many!) by Greenjolly, [...]

This sounds like it should be one of Harry Hutton’s Killer Facts but did you know that until tonight there’s never been a full stage production of The Sound Of Music performed in Austria? On top of that, the film has never been shown in Austrian cinemas (and only once on Austrian TV).
Which is a [...]