The Brussels water operator Vivaqua blames the recent spare of sinkholes on the terrible state of the sewers, with 12% of the network needing urgent attention. The recent negotiations to form a new regional government placed sewers as a top priority. Then they collapsed too.

Vladyslav Heraskevych at the 2026 Olympics wearing a helmet with photographs of Ukrainian athletes who had been killed by the russian war. “Some of them were my friends,” he said. 💔

For the Cold War aficionado...

Väldigt fint att författaren till en massa alternativhistoriska romaner jag läste som tonåring är aktiv här och svingar vilt mot Trump.

Socialdemokraten Antonio José Seguro vinner portugisiska presidentvalet stort mot extremhögerns André Ventura. www.rtbf.be/article/elec...

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.

Who could have guessed.

Marc Bloch to be inducted into French Panthéon. 🗃️

JD Vance brings his own food to Italy

Entrance lobby of a 1950s apartment block in Schaerbeek.

En färsk riktigt god baguette och lagrad prästost. Jag lever livet.

Jag intervjuade Cas Mudde i veckan, om the state of the union. Muntert var det inte: www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/wr8...

Keir Starmers stabschef Morgan McSweeney avgår efter Mandelson skandalen.

Regimen har i 47 år visat att den är totalt oförmögen att reformera sig på minsta betydelsefulla sätt, och måste behandlas därefter. Alla som påstår något annat är antingen blinda eller har en agenda. Alla makthavare bör agera på empiri, inte förvillelser.

Kan någon fråga experterna som under lång tid lurat på folk ”reformist/konservativ”-charaden ifall det är reformister eller konservativa som, förutom masslakt och massgripande av civila, nu också fängslar alla i Iran som har vågat uttala kritik mot regimen hämningslösa massaker?

Intressant att Sverige tillhör toppen här.

41 years ago Perrier sponsored the New York City Marathon and created this beautiful map of the route. You should only be allowed to sponsor a marathon if you create cool maps. Source: buff.ly/ugITmpo

Noterar som frankofil med glädje förekomsten av ’rendez-vous’ istället för date.

Trump cuts requirements for security at the #nuclear reactors, loosen protections for groundwater and environment, cuts back keeping records, raises amount of radiation a worker can be exposed to before an official accident investigation is triggered. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

Good article on ether Wallonia could reach food self-sufficiency (yes with changed agricultural model and eating habits) but almost more interesting to me as an outsider that the question is centered around Wallonia (and not Belgium).

The use of the word "partner" instead of "wife" is not a choice news outlets make when talking about straight people's spouses

Utan att spoila något så måste jag säga att avslutningen på säsong två av Night Manager var rätt kass.

En av de första konsekvenserna av Epstein-dokumenten i Frankrike, för detta kulturministern Jack Lang avgår som chef för ”l’Institut du Monde arabe”. www.liberation.fr/societe/poli...

Went very quickly from but why to looking forward to my next run.

Huer des sportifs, c’est manquer de fair-play. Mais huer des fascistes, c’est juste rappeler (aux yeux du monde) qu’ils jouent dans l'équipe adverse.

Then you'll love this video:

This is the kind of Olympic reporting I want.

Statsrådet Bohlins språkhantering har helt ballat ur: "Hon vet naturligtvis att marken under hennes fötter i partiet gungar och hon har förlorat kommandohöjden att sätta ner foten."

I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌

Är inte ensam på Ikeas restaurant.

Rörande artikel om äldre ukrainska soldater som utgör merparten av landets armé. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Jörgen Warborn (M) ledde EU:s arbete för att lätta upp bolagsregler. I samarbete med Der Spiegel kan Aftonbladet nu avslöja att hans kontakter med amerikanska organisationer som velat påverka EU:s klimatlagar varit fler och djupare än vad som tidigare varit känt. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/aJ...

Tesco sorry for putting up Welsh bilingual signs in Cornwall

Witnessed a quite impressive triple infraction in a intersection on my way to work. Speeding, not giving way and looking at mobile phone.

New research finds negligible benefit from "minimum passing distance" laws requiring drivers to give cyclists space when overtaking them. Protected bike lanes are far more effective. doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

Viss mic drop-aura när franska åklagare meddelar razzian på X med tillägget att det blir det sista inlägg de gör på plattformen.

The EU is relaunching its elite recruitment competition after a seven-year break in an effort to find a new generation of high-level administrators to help manage the world’s second largest economy.

In the trial against Marine Le Pen, prosecutors announced that they will request that the court confirms the guilty verdict and her ineligibility for political office. www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

Breaking: The European Commission said on Tuesday it would investigate Mandelson, who was European trade commissioner from 2004-8 before leaving early to return to UK politics. Mandelson draws a pension from his time there and has to adhere to a code of conduct for former staff.

They posted a statement on X about the raid but also said they were leaving for Instagram and LinkedIn in the same post

Europol involvement is interesting.

French prosecutors raid Paris offices of X, issues summons to Musk and Yaccarino www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kanske ingen kioskvältare men håller med Anders Lindberg idag om svenska kärnvapen, både vad gäller riskerna och begränsade nyttan.

Criticism of the Nordic Nuke Debate™️ in Aftonbladet: "We've gone from 'we can't join NATO because NATO has nukes' to asking 'shouldn't we get our own?'" "If a country like Sweden develops nuclear weapons the [NPT] would collapse, and with it, in practice, the rules based international order."

Interesting article about grouping the many different French elections to common dates as a way to increase turnout. www.liberation.fr/politique/po...

No, but still worth trying.

💥Viktor Orbán had what no one else before: a lasting supermajority in parliament and—thanks to EU funds—more money to develop Hungary than at any time in a century. The result after 16 years: a failing economy and disastrous public services. 🎬 Direkt36's new documentary, The Trap, is out soon!

Franska utrikesministern på morgondagens framsida i Libération. ”Europa kan stå emot en brutalisering av världen”.

Så mycket vidrigheter från Epstein-dokumentenen som snurrar runt i flödet nu. Fängelsestraff och fullständig social utstötning borde vara det enda som gäller.