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Incident on the A598
Posted on 25/01/2012 | No CommentsThis is the story of an accident. It wasn’t a bad one, but it could have been, and it set me thinking. I was pushing my daughter in her buggy one morning, from the park where we had been playing to the shops to get... -
Wrong on so many levels
Posted on 07/11/2011 | No CommentsWho says this website is narrow-minded? We leap from the crisis afflicting western capitalism to the question of how a young girl travels to school: federalism has something to say about them both. On the latter, the story in the Evening Standard today is that... -
Speed costs
Posted on 13/06/2011 | 1 CommentAnother example emerged today of how national borders get in the way of fighting crime. This time, the crimes are speeding and parking offences. There has been an influx into London of so-called supercars owned by Arab millionaires, which are designed to drive at very... -
Speed kills
Posted on 20/05/2011 | No CommentsYour blogger was required to attend a speed awareness course last night, having been caught by a speed camera two months ago and wanting not to acquire any penalty points. I was expecting some kind of annoying lecture on how bad it is to speed... -
The wisdom of crowds
Posted on 11/06/2010 | No CommentsOne of the intellectual fashions of the moment is crowd-sourcing, that is the idea that good ideas and useful information can come from the population as a whole rather than from nominated experts. Its origin is a “guess the weight of the ox” competition in... -
Is Heathrow airport getting too big
Posted on 16/01/2009 | No CommentsA major transport initiative such as the proposed new runway and terminal building at Heathrow airport, announced yesterday, provoke mixed feelings from a federalist perspective. Aside from the considerations of carbon dioxide emissions, which aren’t really within the scope of this blog, there is the... -
Which government for Europe? Some reflections on the idea of limited government
Posted on 30/08/2008 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming In the discussion about the future government of Europe, I want to offer a few remarks not on what the EU should do, but on what it should not do. I think that this is just as important a question. This is... -
Brussels’ glaring stupidity
Posted on 13/10/2007 | No CommentsRead an exchange in the Financial Times between Matthew Engel and Professor Tim Buthe, of the Center for European Studies, Duke University, North Carolina, on the way in which technical standards are set in the EU and in the United States. 071013ft -
Trade on trial
Posted on 25/11/2006 | 1 CommentI was at a debate on Thursday evening about EU trade policy: is it, broadly speaking, doing the right things? The pro case was that international trade is a good thing, enabling countries to make and export whatever it is they do best and buy... -
Flying high
Posted on 01/11/2006 | No CommentsSwitching from climate change to the airline industry, from effect to cause, maybe, my eye was caught by a story in the Financial Times today about Ryanair. It is proposing to take over Aer Lingus, but such is the size of the deal that it...
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