No amount of financial incentives will persuade people to have kids when they see that parents are exhausted and ruined. Whenever you see French parents though, they're drinking wine and are only barely aware of what their kids are doing
Straight outta Sussex. Francophile now in Denmark via Manchester, London and a long time spent in Paris. Swim, run and ride. Campagnolo and Commençal until I die 🚲
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No amount of financial incentives will persuade people to have kids when they see that parents are exhausted and ruined. Whenever you see French parents though, they're drinking wine and are only barely aware of what their kids are doing
I fear a national psychosis is taking hold.
Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go
"Actually I didn't even apply to Stanford, yeah, they just wrote to me and said come and study here, yeah, and they weren't the only ones, either, and they said I was so good that I could probably skip a year, yeah. But in the end I went to Sussex because of my allergies."
The Labour party still …. oh ..
I’m now swayed on.ft.com/47i7VlD How Novo Nordisk failed to protect its GLP-1 patent
Lib-dems gain. The tories are cooked in the moderate constituencies that were once their own. She might as well collapse the party into Reform.
In other countries the tv news will focus on topical, intelligent reportage on a particular concerns, industries, companies, local initiatives, events that bring people/communities together etc in a constructive way. UK news by comparison is a complete bilge-fest. It really doesn’t have to be.
Hmm, it has a massive cash pile, it’s not about to collapse, it is still selling high marketable products albeit at slimmer margins but it has been planning for that for years. I think for many there is a sigh of relief that the bubble has deflated. If Denmark is not so worried, who needs to be?
Nokia. But share price is not company performance and the clever (mostly Danish) institutional investors knew this all along. What was reaped is sitting comfortably elsewhere.
near … Llanwrtyd Wells?
There were more people taking part in protests against the board of Sheffield Wednesday than there were people protesting against all the Asylum Hotels in all of the UK this weekend. Don't mainstream bigotry!
J D Vance has an even bigger disconnect between his self-regard and actual abilities than his boss.
.. and the ~15 mil who basically have nothing to leave have already basically have been left nothing these austerity chasing, education defunding chumps.
He won’t and will never.
If you now confiscate the Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Telegraph and the Sun you might get him back
Also a Holocaust denier? Certainly.
What a psychopathic f%€ker.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the academic achievement of these not English as a first language pupils may well outstrip the majority of English as a first language schools.
A la the Nordics 🤷🏼♂️ As soon as you stop moving..
I suppose admitting to having a lazy afternoon w#%k is humbleness incarnate.
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The original and best, Goat of you like .. cuttingsarchive.org/index.php/A_...
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All digital health platforms are scams. There are no exceptions
You never see an unblurred face in the French press unless an authorised picture. Ditto Google maps almost everywhere. Is it a problem?
This looks like fun .. www.the-tls.com/world/travel...
This looks like fun .. www.the-tls.com/world/travel...
University tuition fees in England and Wales rise to £9,535. Student debt £267bn. Most European nations don't charge uni tuition fees, England does. People penalised for education, upskilling; can't start family, business; buy home. Must abolish uni fees.
Ah, that understated and largely unspoken driver of office space location choice … where does the ceo live/how quick can he/she get to the office?
Paris has always been an aspirational city for the Brit.
I hope this is de-geoblocked. Unavailable outside the UK.
Knowing fully that the Israeli army will stop them. It’s in the quote marks. It’s the direct action impact that will make news and change things. Not, as he says, sitting around watching Netflix.
Imagine telling tribal Tories in 2007 that they'd be in power for 14 years but 12 months after losing an election they'd be egging-on coked up racists attacking the police. They've come a long way from hugging huskies
Violent or destructive left wing protest is framed as delegitimising the protesters' stated cause. Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause. As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.
The desperation for serious civil unrest among a certain faction of right wing politicians and pundits in the UK is as obvious as it is shameful.
Despite Mehdi serving them on a platter, it is in many ways a deeply depressing watch. Nothing will change the environments the majority of these people inhabit and the whirlpool they are caught in is strong.
Don’t want to worry you unduly, but it’s very hard to find any footage of the techbros and datagarchs saying they really like people. Sure, ‘humanity’ as a concept gets positive reviews but nothing really warm and memorable about people. youtube.com/shorts/LXpc1...
Carla Sands was US Ambassador to Denmark in the first Trump term. Despite her and her family obviously having had a wonderful experience in Denmark she trash talked to place to shit once she left. It will be the same. It’s the cult.
Having just watched a report on the increasing number of people turning to AI agents for relationship advice, we can't be far away (if not already there) from a significant slice of voters asking ChatGPT/Grok/Siri/Whatever to tell them for whom they should vote. Take a moment to think about that.
The beating heart of Paris. I am no longer young, you have to have a very good reason to be there apart Imax and a chinese restaurant. No book recommendations, I saw it irl at ground level on foot, on bike and by car. Les Olympiades (the film) is a good entrée. Bonne découverte!
You’re very very special x
The tribes of intra and extramuros Paris are fascinating subjects. From the squatters of the eastern banlieues through to the multi-millionaires of ave Foch, the raggamuffins of Seine Saint-Denis to the prissy from Issy ... if I’m not careful I’ll start quoting Rutger Hauer. .
Fish in a barrel ..
Considering she moved back to the UK when she was 5, I think you are overstating that particular influence. Funfact: I know a bilingual pa that worked with her parents on ave Bugeaud wayback in 1992.
Ben Healy smashed it. Chapeau!
Le visage d’Hegseth…
Terence Stamp
The tories 2010- especially 2020-2024. Boris Johnson (special mention) Russell Brand The water companies Hannah Ingram The Barefoot Doctor The Royal family Philip Green Farage Paul Baxendale-Walker
The tories 2010- especially 2020-2024. Boris Johnson (special mention) Fred Goodwin Russell Brand
Layer on the 3 years and counting arbitrary targeting of Ukrainian civilians by Russia and it is quite sickening. Same aim - same collective potent mix of hysteria, resignation and amnesia.
Dinner.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... State-sponsored terrorism? No, state-sponsored chronic underinvestment. #shonky
There are many, many recent moments that I'd like to see all the people professing to be deeply outraged by Bob Vylan comment on. From columnists & politicians to the Chief Rabbi. (Perhaps they have but I can't find any...) I'd probably start with this one. www.middleeasteye.net/news/senior-...
"except for the gunners"
Frequently opinionated, occasionally wrong..?
While Britain loses 40 libraries each year, they are thriving in the Scandinavian country, where they are designed by renowned architects and seen as ‘sanctuaries’
Not everything is getting worse. Also: modern medicine is amazing. People who could cure children of diseases like this would have been worshipped like gods a few centuries ago.
When it is not being served to Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.
Almost certain FB has a large part in what is happening right now in Ballymena. It really should be banned.
He himself is no stranger to France. Grew up in Normandy and a fluent French speaker.
But it gave me 6 numerically incorrect answers yesterday. Maybe God is (a) bullshit(tter) too. He certainly put enough of them on this Earth.
Proud to be of a generation that took one look at Pac-Man, said WTAF, and has never looked at a video game since ...
The number falling into the second camp is the problem.
Literally piss-poor.
🇺🇦🗣️ "We are not children with Putin on the playground in the park. He is a murderer who came to the park to kill children," — Zelensky responded to Trump’s comparison of Russia and Ukraine with “two children fighting.”
British surgeon Victoria Rose, who's just returned from Gaza: "They're coming through the doors like a conveyor belt... really small children with massive injuries.. bits of their bodies blown off... every day at least half [of my cases] were under the age of 11.. its barbaric"
This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”
In my youth I stayed at the house she shared with Alice B Toklas in a tiny hamlet outside Belley in the Ain. A beautiful location. I am not sure she means very much to anyone under the age of 50.
Cos the best way to defeat Farage is to agree with him about absolutely everything Tories proved this by running a 10 year experiment that left them polling at "functionally dead", while Reform are favourites to win the next election Top thinking, Blue Labour! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Oh the (lack of) joy of living in a 51-49% world, constantly balancing precariously between liberalism and illiberalism. One day, hopefully, there will be a decisive shift back towards liberalism. Perhaps.
Sweet j. This has to be one of the most audacious strikes ever. Chapeau and slava Ukraine!
Nice to see Robert Jenrick on #bbclaurak publicising his vigilante work on fare cheats. Hope he's got a mirror.
Going to be interesting having a deranged conspiracy theorist at the Cenotaph and other state occasions for the next 40 years.
Still can’t bsky.app/profile/thet...
"Elon's leaving us now, we didn't get him a gift because what do you get the guy who's got everything?" "a pardon"
Only our propensity to idolise and fetishise the irrational and irrelevant. Ergo the royal family.
Trump gets bullied by Wall st, Elon ran for the hills, Stephen Miller’s wife ditched the White House, Bongino is a shell of himself, and Hegseth is anxiously wiretapping his own office. All while Putin and Xi eat our lunch. MAGA’s “Alpha Men” are nothing more than a pack of cowardly sissies.
With the new metro connection, I doubt blockading Orly will have much impact other than bothering road users in general. If only CDG had a dedicated fast connection from Day 1.
What right-minded foreign student will now apply to Harvard knowing they they may be kicked out at the whim of the President and his cronies?
Too late. The damage is done.
There's no placating the Brexiters, no reasoning with them, no basic comprehension or adulthood. You can't debate papers behaving like the Sun or the Mail this morning. There's nothing to debate with. They view all trading relations with Europe as humiliation.
He doesn’t care because he is “one of them”.
Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.
Exactly. It's been 9 long years since any leaders from the Tories or Labour have even MENTIONED the benefits of EU or Single Market membership. They've all denied the truth about Brexit damage. And they've all failed to make Brexit work! #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
Scrub Okri. Overreach.
Ben Okri, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie?
Without a calculator how is anyone going to work out 7 x 6 and the answer to this exam and, well, everything?
To find the answer to 7 x 6?
Stockholm, Copenhagen and Helsinki.
I love that people are discovering the joys of 15-minute cities. One of my favorite things about living in Paris is going out to buy a fresh baguette every morning. Follow @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social for more.
It was brutal. I was lucky to have the benefit of an a/c’d office. Heat bouncing off the walls. Nights were almost unbearable.
If one believes in weather portants, then strap yourselves in. In 2003 violent hail storms in May (impressive piles on Montmartre on the day) preceded the deadly July/August heatwave.
This afternoon. Not often that a bona fide film masterpiece gets shown on TV these days, never mind one that is almost 60 years old. Watch on a big screen if you can - the jokes are all around the edges!
The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
+ no féculant = the slim french
You could try Bleu Canard in Lille. Got a thumbs up from a friend.
Yes, when most of us were having fun, expanding our horizons in our teens, froggy was singing Hitler youth songs and doodling swastikas in his exercise books.
@stevenhseggie.bsky.social may have the answer to this.
