On the facade of a 1925 house, Anderlecht.
The Courtens outpost in Anderlecht!
Habermas dead. Arguably outlived the public sphere. apnews.com/article/juer...
Here is my best Habermas story.
I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"
Priors ahoy! Cue the Brecht quote.
3D printed handguns are improving per ChatGPT so there may be a chapter 2.
The property purchase is in the book from memory.
The link between old buildings and cutural identity.
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A snip compared with renovating Pugin’s parliament across the water.
White Box syndrome strikes again!
At least they kept the mouldings.
We have the same problem with escalators on the Brussels metro. Some of the escalators are old and parts take a long time to arrive. Suppliers don’t keep stocks.
New escalators are expensive.
Very promising.
Difficult then.
Is there another pile for boosting employment of the low skilled?
The mid-terms are the first opportunity to send a signal.
Recognising multilingualism would take Brussels beyond the logic of ‘official languages’ which MS apply.
But in operational terms, I agree with you.
These activities all warm the hearts of EP members and their practitioners have been rewarded; but I’m looking for instruments that work at scale.
RIffing on Tony Benn’s ‘Socialism in one country’.
Like with Brexit :-;
Could the next stop be ‘Blue Labour in one country’?
They both expect Blu-LAB beliefs to make sense, but it’s all about vibes with no consistency needed.
Political Impressionism.
- good at killing own citizens.
Complete now.
A very full survey, if bit sneery, on Glasman.
@chrisgrey.bsky.social
Explains a lot about the failure of Brexit that its main adherents should right now be prostrating themselves before the US because they think that's what an independent UK means.
It has long been my view that all U.K. political parties are to a greater or lesser extent involved in time machine politics.
That places Glasman just before the Robbins Report and for the others, pick your own dates.
Hard for LAB to abandon any ‘working class’ territory as it is their heritage.
What needs to be done is very classical, converting a sector of national champions into a more integrated and efficient one.
Per my readings here and there, MS reckon Cion would favour major contractors in large countries in any rationalisation.
Cion has no real entry ticket.
9.1.93, lest we forget.
I wonder if there was an alternative.
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Will MS agree to use Teams or Zoom or dear old Webwhatsit?
What future lies in the agèd Telegraph readership?
No, that would be for riding.
