David Martin's EU Tribune

Scotland’s premier league matches for next weekend have been thrown into doubt after the country’s grade one referees voted to take strike action. At the heart of their dispute is anger over the criticism they have been receiving of late. Granted, senior referees and the SFA have been under intense scrutiny. It started with a [...]

Don’t fall for the old Tory Con/Dem trick – they haven’t! On returning from election monitoring in Tanzania I read that the UK Chancellor has been under attack from Andrew Tyrie MP, the Tory chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, for ‘misleading the public’ with his claim that the UK was near bankruptcy in the [...]

Newspeak: ‘Deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public’. We appear to be stuck in the time warp of 1984. Having recently returned from election monitoring in Tanzania I find that Roma have become ‘nomads’ and ‘anti-Gypsyism’ is on the rise. A new report from the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights [...]