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Links from the week of 5 April 2021
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
- Counterpoint: bilingual messages are useful everywhere. vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2021…
  
  Mon 5 Apr 2021 · on Twitter
- This was a good read [IT] on carbonara’s history and the arguments about the right way to make it: repubblica.it/sapori/2021/04…
  
  Tue 6 Apr 2021 · on Twitter
- There’s some absurdism and even dark humour in this piece but, behind it all, corrupted politicians stoking hate and fear for political gain. They are entirely unfit for public office. nytimes.com/2021/04/10/wor…
  
  Sun 11 Apr 2021 · on Twitter
11 April 2021
Links from the week of 22 February 2021
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
- Un peu en retard mais j’ai beaucoup apprécié cet interview de @thgeerts sur les possibilités du « Digitalis » pour la Belgique et l’Europe. overcast.fm/+kw_qA2obQ
  
  Sun 28 Feb 2021 · on Twitter
28 February 2021
Links from the week of 15 February 2021
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
- 100% d’accord avec @AhmedLaaouej ici. Bruxelles n’est seulement une region à part entière sur le plan constitutionnel, mais est en esprit très différent de la Flandre (et de la Wallonie) plus.lesoir.be/355778/article…
  
  Wed 17 Feb 2021 · on Twitter
- It might be a while before I want to watch a series set in a dystopian Europe destroyed by a mysterious global catastrophe. streamnews.be/tribes-of-euro…
  
  Thu 18 Feb 2021 · on Twitter
- L’économiste Florence Pisani: «Aux Etats-Unis, on préfère en faire trop que trop peu; et on a raison» plus.lesoir.be/356288/article…
  
  Sun 21 Feb 2021 · on Twitter
21 February 2021
Links from the week of 8 February 2021
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
- Belgian liberal party (⁦@MR_officiel⁩) working on a universal basic income of up to 1000€/month as a cornerstone of its new platform. plus.lesoir.be/353675/article…
  
  Mon 8 Feb 2021 · on Twitter
- Great piece on imperial legacies from @stephenkb in NS. newstatesman.com/empireland-sat…. I don’t think there are many EU countries without dodgy imperial legacies, or at least (like PL, HU and SE) long memories of gloriously expansive pasts.
  
  Fri 12 Feb 2021 · on Twitter
- Bart De Wever v. Dutchification. Wants to create a broad centre -right party in Flanders on the model of the CSU. Don’t think the pressure to unite the centre-right is there but says something about N-VA’s push towards mainstream. dezondag.be/dewever1402202…
  
  Sun 14 Feb 2021 · on Twitter
- The Plague Year | The New Yorker < this is so long but so good. #longread newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…
  
  Sun 14 Feb 2021 · on Twitter
14 February 2021
Links from the week of 1 February 2021
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
- Great blog on classics and white supremacy by @HelenLovatt2 powerofsadness.wordpress.com/2021/02/03/cla…
  
  Thu 4 Feb 2021 · on Twitter
- #HandforthParishCouncil has made it to the Flemish press (met ondertitels in het Nederlands) standaard.be/cnt/dmf2021020…
  
  Fri 5 Feb 2021 · on Twitter
- This week’s Bagehot column in the Economist is a classic of the “today Donald Trump truly became President” genre. Lots of advice for Johnson on how to spend his political capital, that he is totally incapable of taking. economist.com/britain/2021/0…
  
  Sun 7 Feb 2021 · on Twitter
7 February 2021
Links from the week of 25 January 2021
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
- 8h/jour, 6j/7, et fini pour septembre? Si j’étais wallon, je préférais 12h/jour et/ou 7j/7 – et un été avec mes amis. plus.lesoir.be/351238/article…
  
  Tue 26 Jan 2021 · on Twitter
- This good idea just slid into my DMs, as the kids say: clickzero.uk
  
  Wed 27 Jan 2021 · on Twitter
- Well worth a read on the Querdenken industry – one of the challenges for those who want to reform democracy rather than destroy it is understanding how to respond to the threat of these fast-moving groups (and what we can learn from them). bostonreview.net/politics/willi…
  
  Sun 31 Jan 2021 · on Twitter
31 January 2021
Links from the week of 18 January 2021
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
- Looking forward to lots of belgo-belgo-belge bickering about this chart in coming months datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/…
  
  Mon 18 Jan 2021 · on Twitter
- Not every day you see the Economist arguing for tariffs. economist.com/britain/2021/0…
  
  Sat 23 Jan 2021 · on Twitter
- Did you see this ⁦@unamccormack⁩ – thought you might find it interesting. overcast.fm/+G86dVYFgk
  
  Sat 23 Jan 2021 · on Twitter
- Je comprends 100% pourquoi M. Vandenbroucke s’en prenne contre les Belges qui voyagent, mais quand on doit franchir les frontières à contre-coeur, pour les raisons tristes, c’est un peu difficile à entendre. rtbf.be/info/societe/d…
  
  Sat 23 Jan 2021 · on Twitter
23 January 2021
Links from the week of 2 November 2020
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
- The new @bookshop_org_UK looks great – an online platform to buy through independents. In Belgium, librel.be provides the same service for francophones. Not sure about a NL equivalent.
  
  Mon 2 Nov 2020 · on Twitter
- Yves Van Laethem: «Pas hors de danger, mais on va dans le bon sens» – in the spirit of “news that could be worse” this evening. plus.lesoir.be/336044/article…
  
  Wed 4 Nov 2020 · on Twitter
4 November 2020
Today’s chaos as Ade says – bad political judgement crashing into a bad political…

Today’s chaos as Ade says – bad political judgement crashing into a bad political structure. twitter.com/Adewunmi/statu…

Belgium’s « institutional lasagne » has had its disagreements during the crisis but for the most part the federal gvt or provincial governors have done lockdowns and the government has maintained and extended our equivalent to furlough.

The idea that Bruges and Ghent, say, or even Bruges and Charleroi would have to negotiate with the centre to be able to support businesses and individuals is just hallucinatory. It would be unworkable centralisation in a country five times smaller than England.

Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 20 October 2020. View the original thread.

20 October 2020
Links from the week of 12 October 2020
Articles, reports and other links I shared on Twitter this week.
- It’s finally happened. There are so many cars in Belgium, they have run out of numbers: plus.lesoir.be/331328/article…
  
  Tue 13 Oct 2020 · on Twitter
13 October 2020

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