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Brussels based Brit/Belge. Law / policy / tech / bikes
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Feels like this is taking society back 40 or 50 years. Thought we'd moved on. And we have. These are fringe views. But. Why are they being raised? Performance? Desperation for publicity?

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

V interesting thread. Somewhat encapsulates a lot of the UK (and Europe generally) economy and why growth is rubbish. I suspect it's due to too many comfortably well off people making and enacting policy, letting an initially sensible system run out if control.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I wish Labour would come out swinging at the Tories on this...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Notable that not a single one of these headlines reflect the fact that flat tax is is a tax cut for the rich and increase for the poor. All assume a knowledge of the implications of a flat tax which I doubt most readers have. This encapsulates the dire state of UK political discourse.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

The faux "isn't this boring lol" approach to policy (and much of business) reporting in the UK* seriously underserves the country. Brexit being a classic example. *FT being a notable exception.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

This is sort of fascinating because if you were to turn on pretty much any talk radio station or pick up any tabloid, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was the inverse.

submitted 89 days ago • 176 comments

V good analysis. I'd like labour to do more but it's constrained by its manifesto. Still, Reeves could have acknowledged that the trade barriers are a consequence of brexit to start setting the tone for the next manifesto (and to lambast those who negotiated and those who voted for the TCA).

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Just watching this and it is SO good. Got the Most Iconic Samples from Hip Hop 1973-2023 to watch next. youtu.be/FpaoCUEhZJM

submitted 109 days ago • 15 comments

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submitted 111 days ago • 3 comments

I started actively using Twitter in 2010 & quickly realised there were other sides to the place outside my hinterland of people there to have fun. Whether you looked for it or not it would pop up in your timeline. Far beyond what I was exposed to irl. So I’ve always thought ‘bubbles’ were bullshit.

submitted 112 days ago • 8 comments

Brilliant

submitted 115 days ago • 18 comments

Lots of old faces from X now here. But where’s the Brussels local politics / Brussels biking community? Time to abandon ship over there…

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Don't think I got half the jokes as a kid. Must rebuild the collection and reread...

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

Discworld QOTD, from The Light Fantastic “‘All the shops have been smashed open. There was a whole bunch of people across the street helping themselves to musical instruments, can you believe that?’ ‘Yeah,’ said Rincewind. ‘…Luters, I expect.’”

submitted 125 days ago • 14 comments