Für was?

"We are useless, and also you must consult us" is a stance

Cherry harvest anyone?

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.

Brexiteer reminiscences part 94. 10th anniversary and another ten years to unwind Brexit.

Nigel Farage: Vacant

Copyright most ageing voters.

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.

What U.K. should do: re-upping this even if ‘free-riding on European defence’ is a Roger Moore double eyebrow lift!

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...

Best post of the day so far. De Brouckere is a dead seventies property developer’s dream.

Ben Habib (of 'Ben Habib Syndrome' fame) is still willing on Restore... who want to deport him.

Hat tip to @johnspringford.bsky.social for explains why Brexit led to an investment strike and how this has reduced U.K. productivity.

In case missed @wjdee.bsky.social @markemuk.bsky.social @rolandmcs.bsky.social David Henig’s impatience with the narrow UK political debate strikes some similar sparks.

Russell Crowes deutsche Stimme ist bei Netflix künftig nicht mehr zu hören. Er ist nicht der einzige Fall. Weil der Streamingdienst von Synchronsprechern verlangt, ihre Stimmen für KI-Training freizugeben, verweigern immer mehr Sprecher die Unterzeichnung einer Klausel und die Zusammenarbeit.

Bang on target!

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.

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 @andrewmartin.bsky.social. substack.com/home/post/p-...

EU Commission recommends that nine Schengen countries phase out the temporary reintroduction of internal border controls ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

‘Nostalgic deprivation’, its role in populism. Highly recommended.

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.

Tony Blair has been more successful than generations of professors in getting people to produce response essays overnight.

When VAT was cut on tampons and ebooks, prices didn’t fall - the suppliers kept the benefit. Unclear why this will be different.

Every homeowner should read this story. Unlike the other Andrew Milne horrors, this one wasn’t 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 it’s really easy to do.

Recommended reading on political fragmentation.

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.

The argument for freedom of movement really needs to be made daily/hourly – 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).

It’s why university closures will matter - and why universal basic infrastructure is essential www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/blog/ubi-for... 2/2

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.

What's happening is we're moving to a European party system but without PR.

Recommended. #AIOmnibus

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.

FInal stitch in a good thread from Roland. Bien pensant opinion isn’t afraid to say the Brexit has failed. Most English folk didn’t value EU membership. It was always a burden. Would Prodi’s 2039 UK joining date be too early?

From the excellent exhibition in Mons @goodclimate.bsky.social on Communist art. This complements your De Brouckere thread. The Communists opposed the Brusselisation of the towers.

A donner, rue d’Oultremont by parc50. Chouette, non?

Est-Ce que que la longue route de briques jaunes des immeubles de bureaux arrive à sa fin? 1950 - ???!

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...

Your sovereignty, m’lud @davidghfrost.bsky.social

A bickering of Welsh politicians @channel4news.bsky.social More heat than light.

Shame!

A great shot! Brussels rooftops are diverse and eclectic when photographed together.

Another failure @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social Rather than resolving problems, better to ruin lives obvs.

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.

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.

‘Nationalist 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. Yet…radical right politicians tend to have close ties to the tech companies that are the most dismissive of national sovereignty concerns.’

I think this is the most likely explanation for what unfolded after the fact. #DonaldJChrist

It take weapons grade arrogance to invent popesplaining.

How the Telegraph reported the earth shattering news from Hungary this morning...

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