The grave of the Sadducee

Euro-intrigue being such a major story this week, there has been much useful online commentary to catch up on. Given the quality of the coverage, and the difference in tone to the reports which have made the television and radio, it looks like Europe will be an issue which will boost interest in many UK blogs as a rival source of information.

At the start of the week, Stephen Pollard quoted extensively from a piece by Dan Hannan putting the British rebate into perspective. Today, Alister McFarquhar at the ASI commented on French diversionary tactics and so, presciently a couple of days ago in the light of this evening's pretense of conciliation from Chirac, did Richard North.

In the interests of reprazenting the Ulster flavas (as Ras Kwame might say if he lived here), I should also link to Slugger O'Toole catching Ian Paisley out defending the CAP in parliament this week. Paisley and his party should be heartily ashamed of their pork barrel politics and Paisley only partly redeemed himself when he pronounced the European Constition as "dead and buried in the Sadducee's grave, which means that it will never be resurrected". Would that the CAP could join it there, despite what Dr Paisley might wish.