I love the idea of a ballet on strike action. The Nutcracker meets socialist realism. (View Post)

France has better infrastructure, amenities, cultural life in its broadcasting and media, and collective social life. It has very bad polarisation between ethnic groups, though, worse than the UK. It… (View Post)

I see today that a Syrian asylum seeker stopped an attack by a German woman on multiple people in a train carriage there. A lesson not to prejudge people. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/2… (View Post)

The Boris fanbase thar is left I think is now more the politics-as-entertainmeht-crowd. Trump has these, but he also still has his believers. (View Post)

Sickly and some parts of Southern Italy do feel dodgier than the poorest parts of Greece. Greece is generally very safe even where people are poor. (View Post)