1. It's impossible to stop people attempting to reach the UK to claim asylum. 2. If all other routes are closed then they will use small boats to attempt to reach the UK 3. The only way to "stop the boats" is to operate safe routes /1

As you’d expect from the makers of Undercover and Ferry, Amsterdam Empire on Netflix is very good and includes a lot of people saying “Godverdomme!” a lot.

I need your help, chums. Running low on food & need to pay my phone & internet bills, so am selling some of my records in the hope of generating some income. Take a look, if 2nd hand records are your thing, or repost to reach the vinyl lovers out there ❤️ www.discogs.com/seller/DrJam...

On the 6th of November 1814, Adolphe Sax was born in Dinant. After studying in Brussels he presented his most famous invention in 1841: the saxophone. Yes, one of the most iconic instruments ever was invented by a Belgian !

Either engineers are getting bigger or F1 cars are getting smaller.

Sorry to everyone for picking Piastri and Hulkenberg for my fantasy F1 team this week, thus ensuring DNFs for them. Expect Leclerc, Gasly and Hadjar to go the same way.

In decades to come there will be an industry of academics and commentators trying to explain the complex reasons why humans dismally failed to avert the catastrophic warming of their only habitable planet, but the real reason will remain that they couldn’t be arsed because it was a bit inconvenient.

It is 8th Nov in a European city widely thought to have terrible weather at about 51 degrees North. Xmas markets open in 3 weeks. It is nearly 16C outside & nearly 22C inside. I have multiple windows open to create a through-draft. I am wearing shorts & a t-shirt. This is not fucking normal.

I was sure antibiotics were meant to make you feel better but these are giving me a right kicking. Cold sweats too. Urgh.

Pure distilled essence of 1979-2025, here. I’m loaded and loving it but somehow I can never shake this mortal terror that somewhere, some poor wanker might be eating a free cheese sandwich.

UK leaders/politicians/press rubbished and railed for decades against the thing EU citizens believe is the most important strength of the EU, thought they could easily replicate the thing in second place, and never mentioned the 3rd most important aspect - solidarity with other member states.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Watching RFK jr run away from someone collapsing feels like a harbinger of things to come

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Glad to see some of Scotland, including Stirling & the Trossachs, maintaining their ancient vows of chip accompaniment preference secrecy.

It is clearly deeply annoying for a sociopath when a human collapses nearby and distracts attention from him.

I know Brussels and Belgium are very much net winners from hosting the EU institutions, but I also think that, as Schumann and Rue de la Loi is effectively the central square and boulevard of the de facto capital of the EU, it would be good for the Union to step in with funding to sort this out.

"who radicalized you" Nothing radicalized me, I was born with basic empathy. The world decided that was radical.

**new records added*** Excellent quality funk, soul, afrobeat, pop & dance music. Reposts greatly appreciated 🙏

In normal circumstances the attempt by the US to extort an allied country directly and via large companies would be a major political scandal. It isn't because the US is using such mob tactics on all other countries. We all lose out. www.politico.eu/article/us-p...

If Subway don’t make a ‘felony footlong’ special edition now, they’re really missing a marketing opportunity. ‘Aerodynamic and aromatic - you can smell the mustard and onions’.

Sure everyone gets like this when they first get a labelling machine, no? Go around labelling things like remote controls, toasters, the Oval Office until the novelty wears off.

“Still Rock ‘n’ Roll Steve!” I say as I pull on my medical compression socks and special sim-racing slippers.

It is a low bar possibly, but seeing a politician win, especially a significant win, by galvanising disenfranchised voters on a platform of unity, compassion and hope, a platform which supported marginalised groups such as migrants and trans/non-binary individuals, feels pretty important right now.

such remember. so gunpowder. much plot. very treason. wow

It’s a weird thing that in the Anglosphere the very idea of solidarity has been allowed to become a corny, solely left-wing, cliche rather than a living societal value. In mainland Europe ordinary people and even centre-right politicians speak unironically of solidarity across & between societies.

All the people gather, fly to carry each his burden We are young despite the years We are concern, we are hope despite the times All of a sudden, these days Happy throngs, take this joy wherever, wherever you go.

First we take Manhattan.

We are hope despite the times. youtu.be/7vgEWp7Voyk?...

Start at 13:11. Treat yourself to this, it’s worth it.

Some divorced Staten Island dad is googling sharia law rn

I LOVE being thrown a scrap of hope occasionally.

This. A thousand times this. Print it on posters and flyers. Pin it above the desk of every pro-democracy politician, staffer and strategist. Make memes and insta stories of it. Do Tik-Tok dance routines to it. Use it as a rallying cry and make it the accepted norm, not a lost epitaph of failure.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Almost every British spy movie or series fundamentally lacks believability by showing people on mid-level civil service salaries affording spacious, elegant houses and apartments in central London.

It’s simply beyond me that a person finding themselves in the direct trajectory of a ballistic sandwich would not at least attempt to catch and eat the airborne comestible, thus neutralising any threat to the public of incendiary mayo splatter or kinetic crusty shrapnel safely and deliciously.

I'm selling some of my record collection to pay bills as times are tough. Please take a look or consider reposting, thanks chaps x

Didier or didn’t he?

Through experience and prescription medication I now have quite a high pain threshold (for, let’s be honest, quite a soft lad), but I have an ingrowing fingernail and it is real actual agony.

Absolutely awful, devastating, sickening news that Claire Williams is a Tory. www.planetf1.com/news/claire-...

🎶Exododus! Movementodus of Jah peopledodus🎶

Is it still hyperbolic to call them nazis when they put actual swastikas on their office walls?

even when far rightwingers are having an extremely positive experience on all fronts they’re still able to hallucinate a situation where they’re the victim

A purported ally threatening diplomats and their families with personal consequences if they maintain the positions they’ve been instructed to take is very deeply shocking, extremely hostile, and undermines the norms by which non-violent resolution of international disagreements are possible.

Opposing NATO expansion is a nonsensical policy. If countries want to join it, they can. Nobody's twisting their arms. Not sure what "non-militarised" security involves

How your email finds me.