Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • To claim a global role, the EU needs its own security council

    Steven Everts and Antonio Missiroli in the IHT last week arguing that the EU needs more power…

  • Europe's debt to Rumsfeld: Mark Leonard

    Mark Leonard, of the Foreign Policy Center in the Uk, believes that Europe should thank Rumsfeld for his attempts at disaggregation of East and West Europe.

  • Close ally of Chirac guilty in jobs case

    Time to catch up on all these things I meant to post… Former Prime Minister of France, Alain Juppe, found guilty of illegal party financing of a fake jobs plan. He could be barred from running for President in 2007. Apparently Irish politicians can’t be barred from public service due to constiutional requirements – I…

  • Lack of posts

    Apologies about my lack of posts, besides keeping track of all the comments and links, I am preparing for a trip to Toronto and onto other parts of Canada. I leave this Saturday! Normal blogging will resume from tonight, but I will be keeping all readers up to date with my legal situation. Thanks to…

  • Glenn on the John Gray thing

    Glenn Reynolds has picked up the John Gray story, and writes a lengthy entry on it. I like Jeff Jarvis’ idea.

  • Response digest

    I will be assembling the opinions of everyone I can find here, and grouping duplicate opinions into categories. I will take it from emails I received, comments left on my blog, comments left on other blogs, and views expressed on other weblogs. This will take a while…

  • Unexpectedly large response

    Well what can I say? There has been a a massive reaction to my posts concerning my recent email from California. I have been trying to digest the volume of input, but needless to say I have been watching my referral logs, email and comments very closely. First I am going to link back to…

  • Responses to the John Gray situation

    Firstly thanks to the people who left comments, I like any input at all. And to the people who emailed with a advice and help, thank you too. Roger has helpfully pointed out the following. The only complete and unconditional defense to a libel claim is proof that the statement is true. Quoting a source…

  • My blog has been threatened with legal action by author John Gray

    I received an email last week that looked like spam. So I ignored it, but I left in my inbox and said to myself that I would look at it later – most spams don’t ask for receipts. A few days later I opened the email, and seen that it was addressed to me but…

  • A cosmic ambush: Susan Trausch

    This looks like a good piece.

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