but that;'s hardly what it is at all, not matter what political opportunists across the spectrum might want to argue

Too much drinking?! I don’t follow…

Brussels Notes #129: Pre Match

For today's Brussels advent calendar entry I'm taking Eduardo Galeano, Arthur Hopcraft, and Ludwig Wittgenstein on a pre-match pub crawl through Saint-Gilles 💛💙

Join us ⤵️

That’s very kind of you to say Tood (he says, staring up at the Joseph Roth section of the bookshelves) - I’m glad you’re enjoying them

Brussels Notes #129: Pre Match

For today's Brussels advent calendar entry I'm taking Eduardo Galeano, Arthur Hopcraft, and Ludwig Wittgenstein on a pre-match pub crawl through Saint-Gilles 💛💙

Join us ⤵️

good man, well deserved, an excellent reason to tear up a Friday afternoon

stellar!

But all it does is reaffirm the status quo, and indulges the louder voices agitating for said status quo. I’m sure that’s universal (and universally depressing 😂)

It’s tough when any citizen activism that doesn’t play into the existing views of councillors (here in Brussels) is met with hostility- one of the downsides of a more politicised local government

And when you do get active and you put the time in, and you're confronted by political disinterest (at best) and bureaucratic obfuscations), you burn yourself out pushing back, don't achieve what you'd like, become disillusioned, and then ultimately tune out (speaking from my experience)

Corps Humain

Part three of an Adventide series of short Brussels Notes newsletter sketches from of every one of Brussels’ 19 communes.

Wherein I go to Evere and succeed in the monumental challenge of writing about René Magritte without mentioning the "S" word (sadly pipes do get a mention...)

Corps Humain

Part three of an Adventide series of short Brussels Notes newsletter sketches from of every one of Brussels’ 19 communes.

Wherein I go to Evere and succeed in the monumental challenge of writing about René Magritte without mentioning the "S" word (sadly pipes do get a mention...)

it's not the language, it's the interaction!