Nick Abbot is being made to discuss the EU with an automated Tufton bullshit dispenser. It's been TEN years FFS. The actual anniversary is going to be a festival of national denial.

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | El PP gana (24 diputados), pero es el partido que pierde más escaños, con el 25% escrutado. El PSOE obtiene 20 (tres menos) y Vox, 14 (siete más). Chunta también duplica su resultado, hasta los 6 escaños social.elpais.com/3iqbp18

Long before Howard, a garden city for workers in Schaerbeek. 1869.

A Dutch family in the fabrics trade built this 1930 mansion in Schaerbeek. Pacifists and anti-fascists, they sheltered refugees from Germany & Spain. Then resistants during WW2. The father, Alex Eekman, was arrested in 1942 and murdered at the Mauthausen camp.

Art Deco beauty from 1937, Schaerbeek.

Theodore Roosevelt Street, Schaerbeek. That makes Thomas Jefferson the only one of the Rushmore lads without a street in Brussels. Serves him right for swanning about in Paris.

Alight at Schaerbeek for cherries and donkeys.

1924 monument in place Jamblinne de Meux, Schaerbeek to Philippe Baucq, a 35 yr old architect and resistant shot in 1915, alongside Edith Cavell and others. It was destroyed within hours of the Nazis taking control of Brussels in 1940.

Place Colignon, Schaerbeek. Incomers acquiring plots here were forced to choose a façade for their new home from among the prize-winning entries in an 1896 public competition. These had to reflect the values of art "that the Renaissance spread among the civilized nations."

Vast 1910 mansion in Schaerbeek. On the bay, the motto in olde flemish reads ELKE VOGEL BOUWT ZYN NEST (every bird build its nest). The owner was a stockbroker called Mr Vogel (Bird).

Art-deco snake mosaic. Schaerbeek.

The Brussels depot of the Palmboom or Jack-Op brewery in Schaerbeek from 1907-13. Long since swallowed by what became Inbev.

Bog-standard 1900 house in Schaerbeek reclad 1934 in art deco coloured ceramic.

1908 house in Schaerbeek. Replacement door but art deco with Tiffany glass.

1906 art nouveau apartment block in Schaerbeek by Gustave Strauven.

Bolsover MP explains why she'll miss McSweeney: "We voted 80% Leave... he understood that my constituents are concerned about immigration yet not racist and they have strong Labour values but they want us to have control of our borders. Morgan is one of the champions of areas like mine."

Curving row of pre-WW1 bow-windowed facades. Place des Bienfaiteurs, Schaerbeek, the vanished local bourgeoisie's sumptuous monument to its own generosity.

Houses for white-collar employees of the Pelletier paper company in Schaerbeek. Their back gardens communicated directly with the factory just in shot on the left.

Modernity and reaction. Left, 1922. Right, 1927. Square Vergote, Schaerbeek.

Roof extension, Schaerbeek.

Art deco stained glass, originally for a dairy, at the foot of a 1934 block of flats in Schaerbeek.

Entrance lobby of a 1950s apartment block in Schaerbeek.

A 1909 row of houses in Schaerbeek turns to face the sun.

The descent into the Senne valley from rue Royale in Schaerbeek.

Middle-class housing in Schaerbeek from the first and seventh decades of the 20th century.

Art-deco apartment blocks, Schaerbeek 1929. 4 units on the footprint of the single house each resident might have occupied before WW1. Meaning 4 cookers, 4 gramophones, 4 telephones, etc. From the rentier economy to the consumer society.

An architect's house in Ixelles. Jean Combaz for himself. 1928, except for the green bit, added in 1937. He probably paid for the place with his fee for designing the art-deco church of Sainte-Suzanne in Schaerbeek.

Église Saint-Marie, Schaerbeek. 1840s onwards.

Banad 2025 reservations still not possible because the website has crashed.

Instead of the arrogance of the EU reset, how about a sincere UK reset, dropping this trash and using the huge majority to make something work better?

Approaching (🤞)the only outcome there was ever going to be for Gibraltar after June 2016. TEN YEARS of denial. And no end of it in sight for the UK.

They hit the ground digging from the very start.

Former French minister Lang resigns from Arab World Institute over Epstein ties reut.rs/3ZjIM4T

'EEC Non' The final shot from the last ever episode of Allo Allo. 1992

Port co-share? Ah, porte cochère.

Making Brexit work. But for Gibraltar. Really interesting panel discussion on the local TV channel as the treaty signing nears (probably). www.gbc.gi/tv/programme...

Flat for sale in the once ultra-modern 1940s Alfred Chambon extension to the CGER offices in Brussels ( ground floor now Wolf food market). Includes access to a roof terrace - the curious skeletal stone mitre visible from across the city. www.immoweb.be/fr/annonce/p...

The developers have started marketing the new apartments going up behind the old facades on place de Brouckère. search.app/GY3SE

‘It’s not very French to change stuff’: how Claire Tabouret’s stained-glass windows cast Notre Dame in new light

He looks like the notepad next to the landline.

Schengen border around Gibraltar from April. If the UK government doesn't get distracted by domestic stuff again and fails to sign the treaty. www.chronicle.gi/spains-borde...

"I will never denigrate the contributions that migrants make" says Starmer. But he did just that.

Move Parliament to Old Oak Common. Or convert one of the universities that collapses.

The Epstein files leak has revealed former White House strategist Steve Bannon claiming the fall of the Belgian Government in 2018.

After disastrous and *unprecedented* quantities of rain, the entire town of Grazalema in Cádiz province is being evacuated because of the risk of landslides. www.europasur.es/noticias-pro...

Brussels NE architect Antoine Aulbur moonlighting in Schaerbeek, 1907. For sale at €850k. Over 7 decades, the address was home to a gas-fitter/electrician then Brazilian coffee roaster, lingerie-seller, brewery rep, pilot, photojournalist, and a printer in the 1970s.

The UK government needs to publish the full list of these core British values quickly so we can know what we're doing wrong.

OK this makes me extremely angry. Has everyone forgotten the massive profiteering from thousands of avoidable pandemic deaths?? The unconstitutional suspension of parliament to force through an act of nationalist destruction that cost our children their future??

I wrote about the fall and would-be rise of Place Royale here. www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1132...

Beliris says the new stone benches on Place Royale are "an ode to the classical facades". Brussels also gets yet another circular feature - more benches will surround the statue of Godefroid de Bouillon. Having somewhere to sit in this square is a mini-revoluution. www.beliris.be/actualites/p...