- Tue, 12:56: Brexit: UK government to host summit on why other countries should join the EU https://t.co/8ZFKkEWG2n Yes, you read that correctly.
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- Wed, 10:45: Inside Housing – Comment – Ronan Point 50 years on: the worrying legacy of a disaster https://t.co/7KdaPwJUUb indeed.
I was going to say something like “cuius vicinia, eius religio?” (I hope that’s at least slightly above Ted Beale-grade, though I’m relying less on my traumatic year of highschool Latin, as a smattering of 16thC history and a whole lot of google.)
But 1198 obviously has nothing to do with the Wars of Religion (much less the Kingdom of Belgium!). Seems it’s more to do with assorted grubby land deals between Heer van Breda and Hertog van Brabant. Bizarre that it persisted quite so long and quite so fractalishly, especially in that part of the world…