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FĂŒr was?
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Matt Steinglass
5 days ago
"We are useless, and also you must consult us" is a stance
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Cherry harvest anyone?
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Frédéric Moreau
7 days ago
Unlike the BBC there's a Brexit vote at Ten debate on LBC. But it features the usual suspects from each side in 2016. Like coming across an abandoned car with a tree growing out of the sunroof.
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Brexiteer reminiscences part 94. 10th anniversary and another ten years to unwind Brexit.
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Otto English
8 days ago
Nigel Farage: Vacant
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Copyright most ageing voters.
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This is a testimonial to the success of the Anglo-French agreement on people trafficking by boat: the traffickers are shifting operations to Belgium. Displacement, yes, I know.
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What U.K. should do: re-upping this even if âfree-riding on European defenceâ is a Roger Moore double eyebrow lift!
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10 days ago
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Frédéric Moreau
11 days ago
I wrote about the war of the modernists in Brussels and how it led to the rise of the heritage movement.
www.brusselstimes.com/magazine/212...
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The Brussels icon who proved that architecture needs heart (and beauty)
Aged 103, Antoine Pompe let fly at his more famous peers, all safely in their graves: Victor Horta was âan artist, a draughtsman but not what I'd call an architect."
https://www.brusselstimes.com/magazine/2121344/the-brussels-icon-who-proved-that-architecture-needs-heart-and-beauty
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Best post of the day so far. De Brouckere is a dead seventies property developerâs dream.
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14 days ago
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Roland Smith
15 days ago
Ben Habib (of 'Ben Habib Syndrome' fame) is still willing on Restore... who want to deport him.
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Hat tip to
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for explains why Brexit led to an investment strike and how this has reduced U.K. productivity.
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16 days ago
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In case missed
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@markemuk.bsky.social
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David Henigâs impatience with the narrow UK political debate strikes some similar sparks.
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17 days ago
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BASIC thinking
20 days ago
Russell Crowes deutsche Stimme ist bei Netflix kĂŒnftig nicht mehr zu hören. Er ist nicht der einzige Fall. Weil der Streamingdienst von Synchronsprechern verlangt, ihre Stimmen fĂŒr KI-Training freizugeben, verweigern immer mehr Sprecher die Unterzeichnung einer Klausel und die Zusammenarbeit.
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KI-Streit: Erste Netflix-Filme ohne deutsche Synchronsprecher
Immer mehr Synchronsprecher verweigern Netflix eine KI-Klausel. Erste Produktionen verlieren bereits ihre deutschen Stammstimmen.
https://www.basicthinking.de/blog/2026/06/10/ki-streit-netflix-produktionen-ohne-deutsche-synchronsprecher/
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Bang on target!
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20 days ago
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Eccentrist Dad
20 days ago
It's not enough to be in touch with the people, or an average of their views, the BBC and Cabinet have to be in touch with the worst instincts of the worst people. Fifteen years of "let's be nice to the Gillian Duffys", a sense they're owed something which the state has been unable to deliver? Idk.
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Anthony Zacharzewski
25 days ago
This is a very good read, in the narrative-resetting vein of other recent pieces such as
@pkrugman.bsky.social
on US v European GDP. It argues that Europe is a tech powerhouse, but more in the background (and more sustainably?) than the US. h/t
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Europe is not a Museum. It's the Future.
The contrarian -and evidence-filled- case for why Europe's tech ecosystem is not just alive, but quietly world-defining. And why Belgium sits closer to the heart of that story than most people realise
https://substack.com/home/post/p-193915039
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Steve Peers
27 days ago
EU Commission recommends that nine Schengen countries phase out the temporary reintroduction of internal border controls
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Commission issues opinions on temporary internal border controls in Schengen Area
Today the Commission issued opinions on the temporary reintroduction of internal border controls by Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia and Sweden.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1223
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âNostalgic deprivationâ, its role in populism. Highly recommended.
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27 days ago
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Sam Freedman
27 days ago
The racism we're seeing across the right today is vile and dangerous but it's also a sign of desperation. Three parties all fighting over the votes of aging authoritarians.
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Ben Ansell
about 1 month ago
Tony Blair has been more successful than generations of professors in getting people to produce response essays overnight.
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Dan Neidle
about 1 month ago
When VAT was cut on tampons and ebooks, prices didnât fall - the suppliers kept the benefit. Unclear why this will be different.
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Rick
about 2 months ago
Every homeowner should read this story. Unlike the other Andrew Milne horrors, this one wasnât aimed at leaseholders. The victims were free holders, oblivious to the dangers. If you have a piece of open land next to your house, it can be weaponised against you. And itâs really easy to do.
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Recommended reading on political fragmentation.
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about 1 month ago
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A paquebot bar to calm your nerves after the horrors of the gare du midi. It was such a bar and will one day return to that role.
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about 2 months ago
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Roland Smith
about 2 months ago
The argument for freedom of movement really needs to be made daily/hourly â long before we even get onto Rejoin. Because the entirety of British politics is still tiptoeing around it (see the Libdems proposing a customs union).
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Diane Coyle
about 2 months ago
Itâs why university closures will matter - and why universal basic infrastructure is essential
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A Universal Basic Infrastructure for the UK - Bennett School of Public Policy
Spatial disparities in infrastructure availability are wide and often growing across England. In a new report, Stella Erker, Diane Coyle and Andy Westwood explore how Universal Basic Infrastructure co...
https://www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/ubi-for-uk/
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Dmitry Grozoubinski
about 2 months ago
Keir Starmer's fundemental problem is that the most realistic gains to be had in terms of the UK-EU relationship were in just not being fucking weird and pointlessly antagonistic... and Rishi Sunak kind of did that already. Everything else is long, slow, complex, incremental and politically hard.
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Sam Freedman
about 2 months ago
What's happening is we're moving to a European party system but without PR.
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Recommended.
#AIOmnibus
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about 2 months ago
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Anthony Zacharzewski
about 2 months ago
So tired of fiscal prudence, law and order politicians wasting police time to do security theatre at borders. And of the the Commission not cracking down on it.
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FInal stitch in a good thread from Roland. Bien pensant opinion isnât afraid to say the Brexit has failed. Most English folk didnât value EU membership. It was always a burden. Would Prodiâs 2039 UK joining date be too early?
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about 2 months ago
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From the excellent exhibition in Mons
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on Communist art. This complements your De Brouckere thread. The Communists opposed the Brusselisation of the towers.
about 2 months ago
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A donner, rue dâOultremont by parc50. Chouette, non?
2 months ago
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Est-Ce que que la longue route de briques jaunes des immeubles de bureaux arrive Ă sa fin? 1950 - ???!
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Frédéric Moreau
2 months ago
The process starts to make the concrete 1930s Clairefontaine Abbey on the Semois near Bouillon a protected monument, along with its surroundings. It still looks like this, but in colour.
www.dhnet.be/regions/luxe...
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Your sovereignty, mâlud
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A bickering of Welsh politicians
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More heat than light.
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Shame!
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A great shot! Brussels rooftops are diverse and eclectic when photographed together.
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Another failure
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Rather than resolving problems, better to ruin lives obvs.
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Nicolai von Ondarza
3 months ago
Great to see the EU and the UK signing the agreement today on UK participation in Erasmus+ from 2027 onwards. Also note the UK Prime Ministers public communication now using the word 'rejoin' in this respect, though it is of course only targeted at this specific instrument.
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Rafael Behr
3 months ago
Having spent a lot of time recently with someone (unlike Trump in almost every way) who is in mid-stages of dementia I have to say this style of conversational glitching and swerving is bleakly familiar.
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âNationalist parties believe that power should sit at the level of the state and handing it to international organisations is the root cause of our problems. YetâŠradical right politicians tend to have close ties to the tech companies that are the most dismissive of national sovereignty concerns.â
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3 months ago
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Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithPalestineđđ
3 months ago
I think this is the most likely explanation for what unfolded after the fact.
#DonaldJChrist
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Sam Freedman
3 months ago
It take weapons grade arrogance to invent popesplaining.
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Leonard Klar
3 months ago
How the Telegraph reported the earth shattering news from Hungary this morning...
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