February 1937 Tory campaign against BBC "bias". To be fair, if Captain Maule Ramsay was leading the charge, "left-wing" probably covered everything up to and including Mussolini...

the house where the Pieten (=elves, sort of) live has been taken over by the army for a barracks and no-one knows what’s happening. It’s a fun idea, here’s this season’s first episode: sinterklaasjournaal.ntr.nl/kijken/video...

Non-snarkily, what would you have done ten to fifteen years ago that would have avoided the situation?

True. Though they do use red pencils and paper.

It’s also totally appropriate to talk about UK politics while making people think about death and the collapse of society.

Episode is here: overcast.fm/+AAJbrsEZCvg

If only David Cameron were alive to see this betrayal of his Scottish referendum victory.

Also subtle(ish) statement that actually English is the only proper nationality and the devolved nations are serfs.

For peak Belgium you now need to put in a complaint that you were offered English.

No he doesn’t. He threatens to in his usual thuggish way. But there is no suit.

The thirty nine steps, four votes and twenty trilogue meetings.

It appears not to exist (yet - come on @politico.eu) but it was just a normal set of offices when I used to go there regularly.

The European Parliament building in Brussels is a triumph of floor numbering. There is a logic (the building has different levels in different wings around the main atrium) but I never got over having meetings on the 5-and-a-halfth floor.

As an Anderlecht season ticket holder, I still miss him.

Terrasse views: spectacular.

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