Bruzz contraint de licencier quatre équivalents temps plein à cause des mesures d'économie - RTBF Actus www.rtbf.be/article/bruz...

Hope it works out. This very nice part of Schaerbeek has so much going for it.

Did you grow up near a Roman road? Check here. itiner-e.org

De creatieve ruimte Reset in de De Lignestraat sluit eind november zijn deuren, meer dan een jaar eerder dan verwacht. De reden voor de vroegtijdige stopzetting ligt bij bezuinigingen op subsidies.

As late as 1910, the GB edition of Baedeker Belgium gives Waterloo 10.5 pages plus maps. By 1931, the same guide has read the room, giving Waterloo just 1.5 pages compared to 4.5 pages for the Ypres Salient alone. Published in Germany, it also disgracefully both-sides the destruction of Leuven.

Brussels 1665 looking E. Blue dot: la Chapelle. Red dot: Grosse Tour, built 1420s, blown up 1807. A terrace was built here for Waterloo tourists to enjoy sundowners with a view. The area became popular with English immigrants, who built a church, now a nightclub. Avenue Louise now starts here

Brussels 1665. Top, cathedral. Bottom, Augustine convent, now place de Brouckère. Used as British military hospital after Waterloo. Then a protestant church with a box for the new royal family imported from England, later a post office. Facade re-erected at the end of rue du Bailli in Ixelles.

Just a month after the battle, British Waterloo-tourism is up and running. It shaped much of the tourist industry in what would become Belgium and eased just a little over the following century when its draw was eclipsed by the Great War sites.

Memorial in the cemetery of the City of Brussels to British officers killed in the Waterloo campaign. By London born and raised sculptor Jacques de Lalaing and inaugurated in August 1890 (some of the remains were moved from a protestant cemetery closed as the city expanded).

Early Brussels apartments in rue Franklin, 1907. Geometric art nouveau style by Franz Tilley who built it as an investment, perhaps after leafing through some Austrian design magazines. A couple of doors along was the Viennese Bakery. Decades before the EC, this area was a draw for other Europeans.

There's a man on the radio saying deportment should be compulsory for foreign criminals.

@christianilbury.bsky.social Yep, this has been confirmed. Around a third of Arts programmes suspended in total, and absolutely all modern languages provision. It's a very sad and frustrating day here in Nottingham.

I love hecklers.

The endless mental death loop of Sir Humphrey explaining Europe.

100 years ago exactly, Belgium's Mobility Minister meets with Brussels' leading politicians to discuss solutions for the North-South railway junction, where work has stalled. These include abandoning the project completely or using a cheaper method. The decision to make no decision is agreed.

The site will be inspected for evidence of preparatory work for the installation and legal action could follow if there is none. Decades after the pre-metro, meet the pre-canopy.

Urban reminds Beliris that there's no permit to complete the Schuman redevelopment without the canopy, for which there appears to be no money. (The curved paving is being installed right now but there's no work underway in the centre). bx1.be/categories/n...

Wonder why this scene looks so familiar... #WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

I have no childhood memories of people not being arseholes about this.

Nobody needs to know this but just after WW2, HMV's factories were turning out low-cost vacuum cleaners.

No biggie in the scheme of things but 7 months after a cyberattack, Wallonia's online heritage site is still down.

Fascinating map of NYC election results if you know the city. Huge differences between the West and East Villages, or west and east Williamsburg www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

On this day 1605: Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up King James I and the Houses of Parliament.

Unclothed statues are erotic content on here.

A pro and anti Brexit panel on LBC agreeing that things need to be fixed to suit the UK. It's been YEARS

Wtf is going on, Brussels and Liège airports shut because of drones. www.rtbf.be/article/traf...

Drones at Brussels Airport means my flight has been diverted to Oostende. Like a minor league 'Come from away.' Curious if we will spend the night at a hotel or get out of here early enough to take a train back to BXL. Three BXL Airlines A319 or similar planes here as far as I can see.

I recorded an event today in both French and Dutch using Google's recorder app to transcribe and then I fed it all into Google translate. The French (which I didn't need translating) is basically fine but the Dutch is unusable.

I don't understand why the UK government fields ministers to be grilled by non-journalist opposition-party activists like Tom Swarbrick and Iain Dale. These people are burned. You can't un-pickle a pickle.

How was Brexit 'mishandled' please, Labour Party? What do you mean by that?

I've taken 100k+ photos in the streets of Brussels over the past decade. Buildings and streetscapes, never people. Since the pandemic, people passing by however have objected to me doing this. And it's getting worse.

An ephemeral view of the 1930 Pavillons Français from the east during building work in 2019. Showing the art-deco facade and its money-saving red-brick underwear.

A bit of MCM. IRPA Brussels, 1955.

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Oh, please. Not the 'botched Brexit' again 😢 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Barbarian is on Amazon Prime. Another great American movie about the city. Candyman for the 2020s.

Digital ID + online voting could deal with this.

You’d need a heart of gammon not to laugh…

Brussels then and now. Rue Archimède east side from the Schuman roundabout in 1965. Just one of those houses left now.

Supermarkets aside, I live in a shop desert. What were once shops are now small rental flats where people live in half-light behind never-opened net curtains. It's almost a century since the original demographic left the area and there's no plan to use these old houses better.

His new bed arrived a week ago and since then he has slept in the box it came in. So that kind of worked.

Shame.

Neither of these two ethno-perverts was born in Britain or even Europe.

Il y a dix ans, le viaduc Reyers était démoli : où en est le projet de réaménagement du boulevard ?

This is an absolutely lovely read. I used to walk past the Flatiron building every day for a year and often found myself dreaming about what it would be like to live in Also delighted to see my old urban sociology prof (and boss!) Sharon Zukin quoted at length. Legend 😊

And it's the weekend.

Costa del Sol. The Bodega Andaluza, Torremolinos' first tablao (flamenco club) in 1960, a year after it opened. It was soon joined on the nightlife scene by the London Town discotheque, opened by the owners of The Elbow Room in Birmingham.

If you're a member of the National Trust remember to vote for council members by midnight tonight. Use the Quick Vote option. Entryist pressure group Reform Trust is trying to seize control. Stop them Voting is quick and easy if your membership card is at hand secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...

You click on ONE royal story and the gates of hell open.