Brussels Blog

Yesterday was as hectic as they get. Sadly, a planned meeting with Prof Igor Jurgen's, advisor to President Medvedev, was delayed due to...

"Belgium is dying. Behind the bland facade lies a failing state - a dying country which has never effectively functioned, and has final...

I just finished reading Max Arthur's "Dambusters". Based on first hand accounts of the crews, and others at RAF Scampton, as w...

I think I actually admire Timo Soini. He is the Finnish MEP who resigned when his party, the True Finns, acheived a significant share of the...

Another one of those marvellous Belgian moments..... I called into the pharmacy today to pick something up for my daughter. They had what ...

Tempus Fugit is not just Dan Dare's spaceship! It's real, and it seems to be happening too fast. The controversy surrounding Domin...

It was nice to meet up with some old friends as well as some current colleagues at a recent meeting in London to discuss the relaunch of FUT...

My son and I spend a lot of time at the military museum in Brussels http://www.klm-mra.be/klm-new/engels/main01.php?id=menu_links/startpagin...

By now I guess Osama Bin Laden will have realised that all that stuff about 72 virgins awaiting him in paradise was all total nonsense. I ...

Typical Norfolk Villagers Go About Their Business - 2011 It's true! According to the Royal British Legion magazine 'Legion' (...

This morning, whilst crossing the 5 lane chaos that is Rue Belliard, just outside the parliament, I and my fellow pedestrians had a narrow e...

  Icelanders have voted to reject proposals to repay something like 4 billion quid that they owe us and the Dutch. Well, isn't that a gr...