I was in Cambridge yesterday and found I had time to attend the first half of the Cambridge University Ballet Club's Lent Term matinee performance. I have only been to one ballet before, "Giselle" in Bratislava last year, but it happened that I had time to kill on a wet Saturday afternoon and spotted this diversion in the West Road concert hall. ( Read more... )

DUP likely to drop seats but stay top My piece for the News Letter.
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  Hooray!
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  Ah, nostalgia!
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  ...and much else.
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• Basic Northern Ireland vocabulary
  ...more nostalgia!
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  What's wrong with the U.S. congress - according to its own members.
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• Average number of languages spoken by the EU ( Read more... )

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  Ivan Krastev on the global question.
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• The new European Commission: which president, and what priorities?
  Charles Grant against the Spitzenkandidaten
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• Democratising the EU in post democratic times
  Jon Worth supports the Spitzenkandidaten.
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• Angry pensioner tips bag of dog poo over Cambridge University lecturer for 'cycling too close to her'
  Headline of the day.
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