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The trains in Germany are ultra luxury and ultra reliable compared to the ones here! ;) And ludicrously affordable. Believe me, I’ve compared. The €9 rail ticket deal sounds incredible as someone who has to pay the equivalent of ten times that for a return rail ticket to London Waterloo from...

Unions are ridiculously better in Germany by all accounts, in terms of what they offer as benefits of membership and being better organised…

Both Tory leadership contenders have said that they want to ban unions from striking. Not sure how I feel about that, seeing as trade unions all wanted Brexit, which inevitably was going to lead to the Tories scrapping our employment rights (most of which derived from EU social legislation)…

Retirees and working-age tourists both do that – it’s basically the default British behaviour when travelling to, or living in, non-English speaking countries.

Brexiteers actually told us that Brexit would only stop people coming in, and wouldn’t affect British people going out. You know things are bad for Brexit when the BBC News admits there’s a problem.

It seems unbelievable by modern standards that the governments of the world acted so decisively about banning CFCs, rather than ignoring the damage and/or turning it into a culture war issue... Those truly were different times.

The British media are raging about the long delays at British ports in Kent caused by Brexit, which they’re blaming on France. (Passports didn’t need stamping when the UK was in the EU due to freedom of movement.)

Looks like the UK will be next in line to ban abortion.

Highest ever recorded temperatures in the UK, and the media are calling us snowflakes for noticing the dangerous heat.

IIRC, the Labour Party has more registered members, but that’s more to do with Labour membership being given to people who join affiliated trade unions.

Oh, remember my local Tory MP said Britain needs to start reversing Brexit by (re)joining the EEA? He’a just got kicked out of the party conveniently while he’d been sent to visit the president of Moldova.

Yeah. Was a bit weird. I guess it’s reinforcing the idea that the Tory party = British state in some way. Apparently less than 200,000 people are Tory party members, which is a small proportion of a country with seventy million people in it…

To be fair, there’s only so much of seeing rich right-wing people calling each other “socialists” that one person can take.

The Tory leadership contest seems to consist of the contenders trying to be more anti-Europe, transphobic and economically right-wing than each other. Also, we’re having a major heatwave tomorrow where temperatures are forecast to reach an unprecedented 40 degrees in parts of Britain, and Tory...

A sitting member of the House of Lords (and former MP and MEP), everyone. Perfectly normal country.

Blame the EU for record temperatures while also claiming that belief climate change is “woke” and that the leftover EU environmental laws are crippling the economy.

Reminds me, we used to have dramatic assassination attempts on prime ministers when the Provisional IRA was still a thing – infamously blowing up an entire hotel in Brighton where the government were staying, and launching mortar shells into the back garden of Number 10 Downing Street. That all...

It shouldn’t be 32 degrees in England basically ever. 20 degrees used to be considered an abnormally hot summer day here relatively recently. This is not good.

British newspapers taking the events of yesterday well…

Something positive, I guess.