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Frédéric Moreau

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Brussels stuff, from the slopes of the Wyngaerd Berg. Journalism here https://www.brusselstimes.com/author/frederic-moreau

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 10d

I wrote about Underground Brussels, the result of 1,000 years of digging, building, filling-in and forgetting. A hidden second city for which there's no proper map.
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Layers of time: How digging for a car park revealed the soul of Brussels

When Brussels broke ground for a sleek new city hall, it stumbled into its own origins: the buried remains of a medieval port.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 1m

It's fascinating how the narrative can swing from the rule of law in the UK being the envy of the world to a culture of distrust of the state wrt ID cards. Such flexibility.

Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 12m

Gibraltar suspends applications for residence after treaty news prompted flood of requests from Brits.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 42m

Friday Feature

EU Referendum. Patrick O'Brian characters results.

Jack - Leave
Stephen - Remain
Sophie - Remain
Diana - Remain
Bonden - Leave
Mrs Williams - Leave
Killick - Leave
Pullings - Remain
Sir Joseph - Remain
Mrs Broad - Leave

Wildcard
Harte - Remain

Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 44m

It's just business. The Netherlands from a British point of view 200 years ago.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 1h

Les conséquences sont lourdes pour les Bruxellois, selon le rapport : le réseau actuel, déjà saturé, continuera de subir une forte pression. Les objectifs de réduction de la pollution automobile et de transition vers la mobilité durable sont mis à mal.
www.rtbf.be/article/le-p...

Le projet de métro 3 bruxellois pulvérisé par la Cour des comptes - RTBF Actus

Initialement présenté comme la solution miracle pour désengorger la capitale, ce chantier majeur accumule retards,...

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Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to imagine now but the #Brighton Grand Hotel must have looked like a skyscraper when it was first built in 1864. Designed by John Whichcord Jr. it towered over the rest of the seafront

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · Jul 23

None of this is cause for celebration but...
Etias proposal: €20 for 3-yr authorisation to enter 30 countries (€6.66/yr). Free for family members of EU citizens, under-18s and 70+.
UK ETA: €18.50 for 2-yr authorisation to enter 1 country (€9.25/yr).

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 14h

Seeing Zack Polanski getting himself on our screens and challenging the mainstream right wing narrative is so refreshing and vindicates the Green Party membership’s choice. This is what we so desperately needed, and nobody else was doing it.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16h

So refreshing to see someone challenge the smug, nasty Reform narrative

Anita R @venividiverily.bsky.social · 16h

I could watch Zack Polanski utterly wreck Zia Yusuf ALL DAY LONG.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 15h

I was at a British university. I met self-promoting gobshites like Annabel Denham and Zia Yusuf. They were a minuscule, unrepresentative fraction of some very privileged students, let alone the country. Why are they on TV talking about integration? They know nothing about it. They've never done it.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 16h

I tried to watch Question Time to have a look at the new Green Party leader. Reasonable audience but disgusting panel members who are only sitting there now because of this show.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 16h

Yes, he was well regarded in Belgium after he got behind independence from the Netherlands which he thought was in the British interest. Like that railway line.

Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 16h

That's a railway originally built by a British company but now often my way into town.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 16h

That garden in the bottom right hand corner is now the European Commission.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 16h

Here's my little part of the world in 1893, in great detail, half built up, house by house.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 16h

There are wonderful old maps made for the state. I have a few on my walls printed up from the national library on demand but there's no consumer versions I've seen.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 16h

Yes, ask

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 18h

You *really* should be by now but you don’t *actually* have to call them liars or racists, if it offends your commitment to now almost entirely redundant BBC principles of ‘objectivity’ & ‘ balance’. You just have to ask them again & again & again to justify their words & explain their exact meaning

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19h

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 16h

Wish we could have the same here but there doesn't seem to be the interest. I do try however...

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 16h

They make a very easy Xmas present for me 😊

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe! By the way, I love your maps, if it's you that makes them.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 16h

I suppose it should be comforting that Google doesn't know if my primary language is Dutch, French, German or English but it does get quite tiring.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 20h

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 17h

Not your problem but this failure by the region to meet its debts has poisoned relations with our neighbours and I doubt we're the only ones.

Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 21h

I renovated my home in Brussels last year. I was let down by every single actor involved in the process, public and private, administration and contractors. Incompetence and idiotic bureaucracy. They cost me weeks and a lot of money. Now this. I would never do it again.

www.rtbf.be/article/des-...

Des primes de travaux 'Rénolution' menacées, près de 2500 dossiers vont-ils pouvoir être payés ? - RTBF Actus

Rénolution, c’est aujourd’hui un système de 45 primes, que la Région bruxelloise avait lancé en 2022 pour pousser...

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 18h

These whining articles with constant references to EES being delayed. They remind me of the joke in that Woody Allen movie about the food in a restaurant being terrible... and such small portions.

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 18h

Then the Conservative party lost it, taking the media down with them... that was 33 years ago and we're still going strong 💪