Many academic employers employ highly shoddy and often illegal employment practices

In the end the crux is this: @collegeofeurope.bsky.social is a finishing school for wannabe Eurocrats

You don’t succeed there by being diligent. By being fair. Or by being honest

You succeed by being passive-aggressive, like in politics generally. My boss can dispense with me without consequence

More than a decade teaching at the College of Europe, ended by email I have been teaching at the College of Europe in Bruges for more than 10 years, but this academic year will be my last. Today I was sacked by email. The College of Europe has a kind of "flying faculty...

After teaching at @collegeofeurope.bsky.social more than a decade, my course was summarily cancelled by email, ending my work, and without a word of thanks

Unlike other underlings in a passive-aggressive environment, I have a voice - my blog, and this blog post euroblog.jonworth.eu/more-than-a-...

Maybe we need laws requiring anyone appearing on a news show or writing for a newspaper to disclose being paid by foreign interests

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it" - Upton Sinclair

Much of the art deco architecture in Brussels demands an intensity of light that the city is rarely able to deliver.

btw, the guy who wrote the awful Hungarian constitution for Orbán, is the same guy who got caught at a 20 men gay orgy in Brussels.

easily one of the funniest guys america has had in decades

"Liberalism as a bulwark against fascism"

We all know this is fascism.

History should be rewritten

Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars Pope Leo said on Sunday that God rejects the ‌prayers of leaders who start wars and have "hands full of blood", in unusually forceful remarks as the Iran war entered its second month.

Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars reut.rs/4rZIThC

Thanks for coming along today mate, that was brilliant. Absolutely buzzin Class day mate thanks for organising

If you ask any journalist from Daily Mail to Guardian, farmers and rewilders hate each other.

I drink with the farmers at the local pub and they come help me rewild my land n the weekend.

I do this all over the UK.

Maybe some of y’all suck at your job but I don’t.

Stabilicum? Piuttosto un ramdomicum 🗳 🤪

"Whether you’re Persian or American or anything else, it’s objectively weird and sick to be gleeful about the destruction of innocent lives, and cities that hold some of the most beautiful achievements of mankind in art and architecture. This goes beyond geopolitics." x.com/megha_lilly/...

“If in the West Bank the state uses settlers to ethnically cleanse Palestinians, inside Israel they are using organized crime groups” - Aida Touma-Suleiman, a Palestinian Israeli member of the Knesset.

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Art nouveau mosaic in Molenbeek from 1909 with a peacock strolling along a yellow brick road through an archway of his own feathers. God bless laudanum.

Brussels Midi before it was wrecked to receive high-speed trains. It lost the restaurant, the tower and the dome of a thousand glass bricks. Design by Adrien & Yvan Blomme with Fernand Petit

Ernest Blerot, architect

Whatever the sector - businesses, courts, lawyers, media, military, parties, universities - the pattern is the same:

- the elites mainly collaborate
- the masses mainly stay passive
- and some everyday heroes resist

The Russians really thought they could roll into Ukraine with no resistance 4 years ago. The footage coming out of Ukraine in these days was quite something. The lost Russian soldiers asking for directions, Russian soldiers getting stuck in death traps, protests, helicopters falling out of the sky.

Tweet by fascist propagandist Chris Rufo: The Right's collective brain is getting melted in a vat of slop, conspiracy, and algorithm-chasing. An intelligent man will guard himself against all of it. https://x.com/christopherrufo/status/2026019868353671346

More than 600 people have died trying to cross Mediterranean in 2026, UN says Deadliest start to a year in more than a decade, according to the International Organization for Migration

It’s only February www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU A referendum on resuming membership talks had been expected in 2027, but could come as early as this August.

🚨🚨Biggest #EU news of today: #Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU as referendum on EU accession could come as early as August, departing from original plan for 2027 ref. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/icel...

The American mind cannot comprehend a country where neither the leading party nor its chief rival sit on the left

Just listened to the latest Sam Harris, with him describing Iran as a "more sophisticated culture than Iraq or Afghanistan". There is a part of my soul that shrieks in dismay every time I see the ghost of Samuel Huntington. It annoys me how mainstream & accepted his cultural determinism has become.

Why couldn't they make a modern bridge just on the side

a year is a long time in politics