Also Vincent Kompany when he was coaching Anderlecht, who are my Belgian team but not PL level. “Now you just need to do this move of impossible brilliance”

Roubles are a hell of a drug

"Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine was a total waste of time, they're just scroungers. Now, the money changers in the Temple, *they* are really making a contribution".

It’s actually an extremely subtle diss at the fiscal policy of Herod Antipas.

I need to finish reading Tiago’s paper (it’s in an open tab…) but the latter is harder and arguably needs a different set of skills. Not something I haven’t been thinking about though.

There was a whole bunch of stuff that happened between 1933 and 1951.

*chuckling* wow this banning all other political parties policy is really going to cost them at the polls in three years.

I am increasingly thinking that (with this and the constant soft balling of Farage) that the UK has a cordon insanitaire as a mirror image of the Belgian cordon sanitaire médiatique (whereby far right parties are not covered by French language press, radio or TV).

"Services for poor people become poor services" goes double for pensions.

I thought it looked overpriced until the photos showed that you get all of Holland Park with it.

@dzyrl.bsky.social this is best yet

Back in a sec, just got to ... déposer de déchets.

Also, how do these journalists look at the state of the country and think they are doing something true to the values of their profession?