Tim Worstall

So when parts of the UK were flooded last year it seemed sensible for the UK government to make an appeal to the fund. The government at first seemed reticent to ask for money, but after efforts from Richard Corbett MEP, Denis MacShane and others the request was made, and £110 million cash granted.
Perhaps there […]

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Gosh, more MEPs on the fiddle.

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Yes, really, defending Peter Mandelson.

The face of the European Commissioner for Trade now adorns thousands of placards and "Stop Mandelson" posters as Irish opposition to the EU treaty grows ahead of a referendum next month.
Irish farmers and No campaigners have claimed that world trade negotiations for the EU, conducted by Mr Mandelson, would slash farm […]

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There exists no commercial, political or social problem that meddling by the European Union cannot make worse. Those who doubt this assertion might care to look at what’s happened to the United Kingdom’s mail system and post office network since the EU Directives of 1997 and 2002, which set out to improve the quality of […]

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On the euro.
Nothing I would disagree with there and very little I would want to add.

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Who would have thought it? No elephants!
So, that’s the Times, The Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, Sun, Mirror, Mail and Express.
All of them carried the story about the liberalisation of the Royal Mail.
Not one of them mentioned that it’s all due to an EU Directive. Not a single sausage from any of them.
Do these people actually read […]

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Elephants resolutely unmentioned.

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Nope, no elephant here.

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Elephant unmentioned.

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No, no elephant.

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The Times on the Royal Mail report.
They don’t mention the European Union either.
Fancy that!

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Please, can we have fewer of these insanely stupid ideas?

The left could begin by fighting for fairer and more redistributive taxation across the European Union - as a first step to a global agreement.

Sheesh!
Given the inequality of incomes across the EU that would mean that everyone in the richer northern countries would be shelling out […]

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Yes, it’s the second newspaper report of the day about the report into the liberalisation of the Royal Mail.
Guess what, that doesn’t mention the European Union either, the reason that we have the liberalisation of the Royal Mail.
I wonder why they don’t mention it? Or the fact that there’s not a great deal we can […]

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Here’s the judgement. Any lawyers want to comment?
I’m not a lawyer by any means but he does seem to have an arguable case which is why he’s allowed to seek a judicial review.
The next question is, is the whole thing now sub judice until the case is heard?

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The issue is not biofuels or no biofuels, but the right biofuels. Europe’s governments have signed a commitment ensuring that 10% of the petrol in Europe’s vehicles in 2020 is made from renewable transport fuels, including biofuels. This will make an important contribution to the EU’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote security […]

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moar funny pictures

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Corruption in the EU?

Battersby uncovered evidence that the agency’s former director, Hamed Sow, who is now the energy minister of the west African country of Mali, approved the award of lucrative European Union contracts to a company in which he had a financial interest.
Sow is alleged to have arranged for the CDE to back a […]

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This is how the system works:

Firstly Barroso moved Jacques Barrot from the Transport to the Justice & Home Affairs portfolio in the Commission.

Yup.

Barrot has been a European Commissioner since April 2004, serving as Commissioner for Regional Policy in the Prodi Commission before being selected as a Vice-President and Commissioner for Transport in the Barroso Commission.In […]

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A householder has been left with a £225 bill and a criminal conviction after over-filling his bin.

There was a time when we were largely a law abiding nation. The implicit deal was that there weren’t that many laws which we had to obey and there was great social pressure upon people to obey them. A […]

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At least, I think it would be.

These are the requirements for one of the most sought after careers on the planet: the chance to go into space. The European Space Agency has announced that from May it will be recruiting a new cohort of astronauts. But although the ESA has said it will consider applications […]

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