Frédéric Moreau
@goodclimate.bsky.social
Brussels stuff, from the slopes of the Wyngaerd Berg.
Journalism here
https://www.brusselstimes.com/author/frederic-moreau
Journalism here
https://www.brusselstimes.com/author/frederic-moreau
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Frédéric Moreau
@goodclimate.bsky.social
· Sep 29
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.
www.brusselstimes.com
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.
www.brusselstimes.com/1765462/laye...
www.brusselstimes.com/1765462/laye...
1820. Perfection.
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
1820. Perfection.
Rocco Forte opposes tourist taxes that would affect his 'very wealthy American clients'. Got the Brexit he wanted, accepted the knighthood and left the country, the big patriot.
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Rocco Forte opposes tourist taxes that would affect his 'very wealthy American clients'. Got the Brexit he wanted, accepted the knighthood and left the country, the big patriot.
Can anyone help? Has the term 'garden-grab' been replicated in a snappy way in French or Dutch?
November 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Can anyone help? Has the term 'garden-grab' been replicated in a snappy way in French or Dutch?
Generous and correct, I think.
Wrote this a couple of weeks ago. Feels more relevant still after today. And it’s a deficit of self awareness which goes far beyond some members of the BBC board.
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Generous and correct, I think.
Reposted by Frédéric Moreau
Wrote this a couple of weeks ago. Feels more relevant still after today. And it’s a deficit of self awareness which goes far beyond some members of the BBC board.
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Wrote this a couple of weeks ago. Feels more relevant still after today. And it’s a deficit of self awareness which goes far beyond some members of the BBC board.
Reposted by Frédéric Moreau
Brilliant thecritic.co.uk/auntie-in-th...
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Brilliant thecritic.co.uk/auntie-in-th...
Remember this when the whining about Etias starts.
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Remember this when the whining about Etias starts.
I finished David Olusoga's history of Empire. A really good, concise rebuttal of the type of infantile bollocks below, viz.: you owe us everything, we owe you nothing, we are everything, you are nothing.
This article is exactly what you'd expect from looking at the pictures.
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I finished David Olusoga's history of Empire. A really good, concise rebuttal of the type of infantile bollocks below, viz.: you owe us everything, we owe you nothing, we are everything, you are nothing.
Reposted by Frédéric Moreau
Brutal
Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"
November 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Brutal
Reposted by Frédéric Moreau
This is £600m from the same university sector that is pretty close to collapse in a growing number of major institutions?
Many of them universities that are among the biggest employers in the very ‘left behind’ towns and cities that Labour talks so much about…
Many of them universities that are among the biggest employers in the very ‘left behind’ towns and cities that Labour talks so much about…
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This is £600m from the same university sector that is pretty close to collapse in a growing number of major institutions?
Many of them universities that are among the biggest employers in the very ‘left behind’ towns and cities that Labour talks so much about…
Many of them universities that are among the biggest employers in the very ‘left behind’ towns and cities that Labour talks so much about…
Reposted by Frédéric Moreau
Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...
Shop & Go rue de l'Ecuyer preserves a ghost of Michel Polak's modernist restaurant refit of 1934. The London Taverne opened here in the 1860s, owner William Meatyard. Perhaps an offshoot of the Grande Taverne de Londres owned by his father Thomas on rue des Princes, the other side of the Opera.
November 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Shop & Go rue de l'Ecuyer preserves a ghost of Michel Polak's modernist restaurant refit of 1934. The London Taverne opened here in the 1860s, owner William Meatyard. Perhaps an offshoot of the Grande Taverne de Londres owned by his father Thomas on rue des Princes, the other side of the Opera.
Understaffed, poorly-maintained, outdated, never busy, not even trying (the cafe is a vending machine), not able to try. What is the future for this place now the 2030 bicentenary plans have been binned? (It's still absolutely worth visiting)
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Understaffed, poorly-maintained, outdated, never busy, not even trying (the cafe is a vending machine), not able to try. What is the future for this place now the 2030 bicentenary plans have been binned? (It's still absolutely worth visiting)
Antiquities wing of the Brussels art and history museum, designed 1956, opened 1966. Architects Robert Puttemans & Charles Malcause. A fantastic MCM space.
November 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Antiquities wing of the Brussels art and history museum, designed 1956, opened 1966. Architects Robert Puttemans & Charles Malcause. A fantastic MCM space.
Foods showcased at the 1888 Brussels international expo.
Belgium: Chervil soup*, carbonnades*, hochepot, chicken with endives, Choesels (sweetbreads in lambic), eels in green herbs*, Plattekees*, Hettekees, Pottekees (cheeses), Lambic*, Faro, Brune, Diest, Louvain (beers).
* I still consume these
Belgium: Chervil soup*, carbonnades*, hochepot, chicken with endives, Choesels (sweetbreads in lambic), eels in green herbs*, Plattekees*, Hettekees, Pottekees (cheeses), Lambic*, Faro, Brune, Diest, Louvain (beers).
* I still consume these
November 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Foods showcased at the 1888 Brussels international expo.
Belgium: Chervil soup*, carbonnades*, hochepot, chicken with endives, Choesels (sweetbreads in lambic), eels in green herbs*, Plattekees*, Hettekees, Pottekees (cheeses), Lambic*, Faro, Brune, Diest, Louvain (beers).
* I still consume these
Belgium: Chervil soup*, carbonnades*, hochepot, chicken with endives, Choesels (sweetbreads in lambic), eels in green herbs*, Plattekees*, Hettekees, Pottekees (cheeses), Lambic*, Faro, Brune, Diest, Louvain (beers).
* I still consume these
Because they launched Quick , you see 🍔
Anyway, lots of images of the interior.
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Anyway, lots of images of the interior.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Because they launched Quick , you see 🍔
Anyway, lots of images of the interior.
www.immoweb.be/en/ad/office...
Anyway, lots of images of the interior.
www.immoweb.be/en/ad/office...
From 1916, the former Vaxelaire family mansion in Saint-Josse is on the market. 3,300m²! Energy rating C! €5m for a 'Quick' sale.
November 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
From 1916, the former Vaxelaire family mansion in Saint-Josse is on the market. 3,300m²! Energy rating C! €5m for a 'Quick' sale.
Auto-fill on Google. The basic anglophone online experience is utterly un-European.
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Auto-fill on Google. The basic anglophone online experience is utterly un-European.
Disgusting slander aimed at an entire social class.
At Labour’s conference, Keir Starmer promised his government would “fight with everything we have” against those pushing racism and the idea of two-tier Britishness.
Now it is the clear and stated policy rationale of his government that the racists were correct and must be appeased.
Now it is the clear and stated policy rationale of his government that the racists were correct and must be appeased.
It’s just nuts. Even if you accept Labour’s policy diagnosis, we “lost control” of our borders, and concern about immigration was rising long before the alarming rise of racism. The big change on racism has been we traded an anti-racist government for one that is at best Trappist on it.
November 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Disgusting slander aimed at an entire social class.
Reposted by Frédéric Moreau
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths
Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Not content with making every interior look like a dentist's, developers are whitewashing facades again. 1912 secession-inspired house by the Hamesse bros. Before and after.
November 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Not content with making every interior look like a dentist's, developers are whitewashing facades again. 1912 secession-inspired house by the Hamesse bros. Before and after.
Not content with making every interior look like a dentist's, developers are whitewashing facades again. 1912 secession-inspired house by the Hamesse bros. Before and after.
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Not content with making every interior look like a dentist's, developers are whitewashing facades again. 1912 secession-inspired house by the Hamesse bros. Before and after.
If you've ever wondered why this huge, random block of flats towers above Parc Léopold, the outrageous answer is buried in the podcast.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
If you've ever wondered why this huge, random block of flats towers above Parc Léopold, the outrageous answer is buried in the podcast.