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
Pinned
If you seek my monument, look around you. Architect Jean Delhaye pictured in Victor Horta's 1893 Tassel mansion, which he bought in 1976 and restored. Delhaye sacrificed his own career to save his former teacher's masterpieces. I wrote about him in the new Brussels Times Magazine, out now.
"Prisoners had to be repainted without their chains". A new exhibition about the enormous Congo Panorama created for the 1913 Ghent World Exhibition. By @leocendro.bsky.social
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The Congo painting that Belgium can never show again
"It looks amazing, but the message is horrific."
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November 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
"Prisoners had to be repainted without their chains". A new exhibition about the enormous Congo Panorama created for the 1913 Ghent World Exhibition. By @leocendro.bsky.social
www.brusselstimes.com/1855864/the-...
www.brusselstimes.com/1855864/the-...
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1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
Work starts next year.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Work starts next year.
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Andrew Marr on a closer relationship with the EU: "that would mean taking their rules much more seriously."
November 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Andrew Marr on a closer relationship with the EU: "that would mean taking their rules much more seriously."
Probably went down well in The Slaughtered Lamb.
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Probably went down well in The Slaughtered Lamb.
Arthur Laffer being interviewed on LBC. He sounds like all the nonsensical older men who call the station with their wizard plans to destroy the state.
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Arthur Laffer being interviewed on LBC. He sounds like all the nonsensical older men who call the station with their wizard plans to destroy the state.
Not according to CM Fabian Picardo.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Not according to CM Fabian Picardo.
www.chronicle.gi/agreement-tu...
www.chronicle.gi/agreement-tu...
If you seek my monument, look around you. Architect Jean Delhaye pictured in Victor Horta's 1893 Tassel mansion, which he bought in 1976 and restored. Delhaye sacrificed his own career to save his former teacher's masterpieces. I wrote about him in the new Brussels Times Magazine, out now.
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
If you seek my monument, look around you. Architect Jean Delhaye pictured in Victor Horta's 1893 Tassel mansion, which he bought in 1976 and restored. Delhaye sacrificed his own career to save his former teacher's masterpieces. I wrote about him in the new Brussels Times Magazine, out now.
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Also in our magazine, we have Brussels in flux:
• Anas El Baye meets Fouad Ahidar, the politician shaking the Brussels establishment
• Philippe Van Parijs on why gridlock = success
• @goodclimate.bsky.social on Jean Delhaye, the unsung hero who saved Art Nouveau
• Anas El Baye meets Fouad Ahidar, the politician shaking the Brussels establishment
• Philippe Van Parijs on why gridlock = success
• @goodclimate.bsky.social on Jean Delhaye, the unsung hero who saved Art Nouveau
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Also in our magazine, we have Brussels in flux:
• Anas El Baye meets Fouad Ahidar, the politician shaking the Brussels establishment
• Philippe Van Parijs on why gridlock = success
• @goodclimate.bsky.social on Jean Delhaye, the unsung hero who saved Art Nouveau
• Anas El Baye meets Fouad Ahidar, the politician shaking the Brussels establishment
• Philippe Van Parijs on why gridlock = success
• @goodclimate.bsky.social on Jean Delhaye, the unsung hero who saved Art Nouveau
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✨ The new issue of @brusselstimes.com Magazine is out!
From football revolutions to foreign-policy, surreal whodunnits to cemeteries, spies to wine, ultrarunners to Art Nouveau heroes, this small country contains big dramas.
Read, roam and stay curious.
From football revolutions to foreign-policy, surreal whodunnits to cemeteries, spies to wine, ultrarunners to Art Nouveau heroes, this small country contains big dramas.
Read, roam and stay curious.
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
✨ The new issue of @brusselstimes.com Magazine is out!
From football revolutions to foreign-policy, surreal whodunnits to cemeteries, spies to wine, ultrarunners to Art Nouveau heroes, this small country contains big dramas.
Read, roam and stay curious.
From football revolutions to foreign-policy, surreal whodunnits to cemeteries, spies to wine, ultrarunners to Art Nouveau heroes, this small country contains big dramas.
Read, roam and stay curious.
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.
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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.
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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
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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…
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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.