Links I found interesting for 26-10-2015

[nwhyte]

• British Left and Right are wrong on Portugal
  What's really happening.
  (tags: ukpolitics eu portugal )
• Was it like this for the Irish?: The War on British Muslims
  Good question - from 2008!
  (tags: ukpolitics waronterror )
• Lessons of Past Disasters Helped Mexico Sidestep the Brunt of a Hurricane
  Whew.
  (tags: mexico )
• EU failed to heed emissions

Comments

[redfiona99]

Personal experience talking rather than cold hard facts, but I've often found that when talking to Brits about Euro politics they tend to try to map it onto a UK frame which doesn't always work and often distorts the argument. I know everyone does that to some extent, but the warping and spindling is pretty significant because of the ways the UK is an outlier.

[nwhyte]

The sheer mendacity of the Telegraph article on Portugal is depressing enough (though of course entirely typical of their line on Europe generally); what is even worse is the number of people who read only the headline and didn't even spot that it was contradicted by some of the reporting, let alone twig that the reporting was not trustworthy anyway because of where it was published!