This blog is one of the top ten European blogs, according to an evaluation co-ordinated by Craig Winniker of the Wall Street Journal and published by E Sharp magazine this month.

In fact, I come in 6th place, three behind Margot Wallstrom's famous blog and just ahead of a eurosceptic blog Eurosoc. Their evaluation of my blog is that "between reading all the fun and frivolous blogs it's worth while checking out something as sober and sincere as MEP Richard Corbett's …… Refreshingly Corbett's is among the least self-promoting of the meagre crop of MEP blogs".

Well, most of the time!