John T
jtatlife.bsky.social
John T
@jtatlife.bsky.social
Dutch consultant by day, interested in world history & British politics by night. Proud Hollander
October 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM
This is one of those online guys isn't it?
October 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Sir Humphrey understood
September 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Reminded of this from 'Serenity'
September 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Strongly reminded of this line by Douglas Adams regarding his version of the universal translator
September 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Sounds good!
September 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
August 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
From little boys to big lads in 6 weeks of summer break!
August 14, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Soviet methods - blunt & effective
August 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
More generally Europe (inc the UK) has quickly stepped up to replace the aid of the US turncoats this year, which is not bad going
August 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
But in good ways - I liked this story, apparently offered in a letter to the Spectator. Gentlemanly conduct:
June 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
In Pratchett's Discworld golems are the only (surviving) atheists - being ceramic they can withstand the lightning bolts the gods use to smite down the other atheists...
June 15, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Excited to learn how an 8-0 victory could be considered 'a stoppage-time thriller'
June 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Based on this BBC piece both are basically true (you more so). Dutch men prefer average height women to short, and Dutch women (very) tall men to average, compared to Americans
June 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Yep. *This* is a defensible city (if you pull some suburb down
May 13, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Almost as good as her “if was up to me you’d all be executed” look for the press corps a couple of years back.
Kid knows how to look regal!
May 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Yes, you can see here that the NDP survived government but not Trump's attempt to make this thing a binary referendum on whether Canada should exist or not.
April 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
And given the table below the Mail are never going to stop ragging on the BBC even if it went full fash.
April 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
You've probably seen this chart but when I worked in England I had it hanging outside my door to help fellow Europeans.
The Dutch, in particular, needed a lot of convincing that it was both funny and literally true
April 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
April 9, 2025 at 7:34 AM
10% down now
April 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
People always find our mess of clogs at the garden door funny but they're easy to slip on and off, and mud proof
March 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
March 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
As you can see French support was less strong than UK, Nordics & Poland,
March 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Right? *Logically* this ad works , I guess, but on an irrational level 'defend Western civilisation against the alien hordes' posters don't tend to feature black people as the goodies.
And 'Western civilisation against alien hordes' folk are usually not thinking very rationally
February 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM