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The New Federalist.eu Wednesday 21 September 2011, by Emily Hoquee With levels of Euroscepticism in Britain unabating and daily press declarations that the EU has banned everything from the Queen on our passports to old-fashioned tea rooms, is it time to question how much of this EU reporting is actually true?
Peter Hitchin's Blog 19th September 2011
Among all the many festivals and gatherings that now make British life so much more entertaining, it is rather surprising that –until now – there has never been one devoted to George Orwell, incontestably one of our greatest and most influential writers.
This year that has been put right. There’s a very good Orwell Festival, or rather was, as it has just finished, in and around Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire. With a bit of luck, there will be another one in two years. I do hope they repeat the performance of ‘The Last Man in Europe’, a one-man show about Orwell’s life that I didn’t have the chance to see.
The Telegraph
The inaugural meeting of a new parliamentary Eurosceptic group, likely to include around 80 Conservative backbenchers, is set to back the radical move in the Commons tomorrow.
If the move is adopted by ministers it would represent a significant power shift back to Westminster and possibly pave the way for MPs to win the right to approve more key British appointments to the EU – including even commissioners.