A Field Guide To The British Eurosceptics
All fair minded people would surely agree that the British are revolting. The daily news shames an ever longer list of Members of Parliament who have been caught fiddling their expenses.
Some have gone wild and got the taxpayer to buy and furnish several homes, others have claimed for items that seem unrelated to their work, [...]
The Towering Inferno – an investigation into the Berlaymont fire
As eurocrats scuttled away from the flames, apocalyptic preachers roamed around Schuman quoting the more excitable passages from the Book of Revelations but the emergency services
were feeling the pressure, as one senior policeman said, off the record, “We’ve got to hush this up, there’s a lot at stake”. Despite press releases trying to minimise the [...]
Google Searches The Boulevards Of Brussels
The search giant has just sent a fleet of red Opels out on the streets to photograph Brussels for its Street View part of Google Maps. This could have some interesting results and people are going to be poring over the results.
In the past photos on Street View have caught out cheating partners, people skiving [...]
A Freudian Slip
“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?’” – Sigmund Freud Can our man help, maybe? Hmmm…
Well, I think it’s safe to say that women don’t really want a [...]
Why Custard Has No Place In Politics
I can’t claim a great love for Lord Mandelson, but throwing green custard in his face is just plane stupid. Describing him as ’slimy’ is an opinion, one that is shared by many, but does it advance a debate? Of course not.
One of the causes I espouse is to try to lessen the distance between [...]
The Golden Pilot
Taking a look at an unusual memorial on Avenue Louise.
A small monument topped with a gold bust of a pilot on Avenue Louise, the scene of a heroic attack on the morning of January 20th, 1943 from lone Belgian pilot, Baron Jean de Selys Longchamps. This was the culmination of his dogged desire to fight [...]
Sobieski Park
Brussels has many green spaces, but one of the lesser known ones is a
real gem that is well worth a visit. The Florist’s Gardens, above
Sobieski Park, has been renovated in the last few years, most recently
after a competition for designing urban furniture that has left this
space with a refreshing blend of innovative design and [...]
