October 20th, 2005

Open Europe Opens for Business

Maybe today is not a good day media-wise to launch another centre-right think tank? Nevertheless Open Europe launches at Bloomberg’s snazzy European HQ (the auditorium is a cross between a TV studio and a nightclub with disco lights on the floor). The backers include a lot of former supporters of the successful No Campaign. The website is a bit of joke – with jokey (broken) links that don’t work and look sloppy. None of the downloads download and Guido could not subscribe to the bulletin. Get it together chaps…

Open Europe joins the Globalization Institute on the roster of right-of-centre think tanks challenging the EU consensus from a non-bonkers, free market perspective. The Blairite Foreign Policy Centre still seems to have lost its way and now seems to be more of a PR operation / consultancy for foreign interests and the FCO.

UPDATE: Neil O’Brien emails to say the real link is here.




Balls Calls for Deeper Cuts | Speccie
Lessons from the Thirties | CPS
PMQs Idiots | Harry Cole
Jon Cruddas is Not the Messier | Dan Hodges
We Should Honour Victims | Bob Blackman
Bad Al Campbell Spinning for Portland | PR Week
HuffPo’s House Jihadi | Washington Free Beacon
Osborne Gets His Soundbite | Nick Robinson
Moonbat versus Chomsky | Charles Crawford
Beecroft is “S**t” | LibDem MP
News of the World Trailed Watson’s Mistaken Mistress | Indy
Shabana Mahmood MP Saves Brum Market | ITV News
Plan a Velvet Divorce for the €uro | Gideon Rachman
Truth About Romney’s Bain “Vampire Capitalism” | Wall Street Journal
Clegg’s Revenge | Nick Wood
Cleaning Out Stables | Biased BBC

Previously Seen


Peter Botting



Lord Lamont told ITV News…

“I think the PM is just human and Ed Balls is a pretty irritating person”



The last Quango in Paris says:

Mr Bryant and Mr Watson managing to make the whole hacking affair look like a farce – the more they moan the less I care about the whole subject! So partisan it beggars belief at all costs. They cannot rise above it ! If I was to call the PM a ‘liar’ I would want to be VERY sure.



Tip off Guido
Web Guido's Archives








RSS


AddThis Feed Button
Archive


Labels
Guido Reads