Just a few thoughts for the day:

My friend David Garrahy, who was injured in the airport bombing:

A very moving interview with the driver of the Metro train that was bombed, with video:

Tremendously moving interview with Christian Delhasse, the driver of the Metro train that was bombed in the 2016 terrorist attacks in Brussels, ten years ago today. He feels personally responsible; he was physically uninjured, but his life was destroyed. www.standaard.be/binnenland/c…

— Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂 (@nwhyte.bsky.social) March 22, 2026 at 9:05 AM

My own thoughts, written the following day:

As I said then, I am proud of this country, which I now call my own, which finds its way to solutions through peculiar paths, and sometimes combines superficial surliness with a silent determination to just get on with things. I’m also proud of the European project, which is about building and sustaining a vision based on transcending past conflict. I am not interested in hearing the views of those who want to open new conflicts. They are losing. We must win.