This would fit

This was good. I hope you expensed the Taittinger and a premium Bumble sub.

There's a metaphor in there somewhere

Just wait until you get promoted to movie editor-in-chief, where your job is to spike the plucky young reporter's stories because you're scared of the proprietor!

Go to Ghent. Go directly to Ghent. Do not pass Bruges. Do not collect 200 ecocheques.

It was, and I'd call this an anti-Muslim pogrom.

Why this framing? One sort of racism doesn't diminish or discount another.

Good if you only want to talk to like-minded people, which is fine some of the time but not all.

What this graph tells me is that if you want to see a representative cross-section of views, you need to be on several platforms. No single service has replaced Twitter.

Saw 1815 and brain immediately went to St Helena... but it seems you're closer to home!

Call it what you like; if it's money forcibly paid to the state then it's a tax.

Setting up a company is under consideration - but of course this institutionalised tax-dodging by Belgians, while expat employees get milked, is a big part of why Belgium isn't fit to host the EU institutions.

Not necessarily, I don't know their pay and conditions. But if they're not being paid enough, then where the hell are my 55% taxes going?

I'm not and I did. Frequent debilitating strikes are a subset of inadequate public services.

You've been traumatised into low expectations! We're paying Scandinavian levels of tax. Public services should be impeccable.