BBC News has launched its site covering June’s elections - there are local as well as European elections in the UK on June 10

The Guardian’s Euroblog - a record of the European election campaign written by three British MEPs - Roger Helmer, Richard Corbett and Sarah Ludford (found via Doctor Vee)

Great title for a blog post, “If the past is another country, how about a declaration of independence?” Interesting cogitation behind the title, too.

Via the Young Fogey, here’s an amusing website that ranks and grades the various flags of the world. What grade does your country get?

Ken Macleod has an interesting post about his attendance at an SF convention in Croatia

On April 5, Siemens AG’s CEO Heinrich v. Pierer talked to the UN Security Council about The Role of [multinational] Business in Conflict Prevention, Peacekeeping and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding. I suppose the perspective of cross-country hierarchies on these issues should be given more public attention.

Russel Arben Fox is already going on Summer holiday, blogwise, in order to catch up on other (more?!) important things. Looks like a good opportunity to check his archives and do some catching up ourselves…

Reading Scott’s post about google politics and lexicological engineering with respect to “Jew/Jews/Jewish” reminded me to recommend to you a volume of short essays called “The Jewish Voice in Transatlantic Relations” (.pdf) which is the result of two symposia organised by, among other organisations, the volume’s publisher, the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at [...]

A Periodic Table of Blogs by Score Bard. Apparently, it has been discovered by the Instapundit last November. But I had not seen it yet and so had to express my excitement by posting this link.

Harry’s Place is running a Do Something for Iraq campaign to promote ‘campaigns, projects and charities that are directly helping Iraqi people’