It’s not unfair.

Home Office doing its job by making foreigners feel unwelcome. Brexiters, are you proud?

Perspective from @SarahManavis @NewStatesman.

It’s not positive. Well worth a read.

82 to 79. It’s crowded out there.

Lovely piece by Clive James that I had not seen before.

A long but fascinating personal and professional account of the surveillance state.

@DanielSerwer is alaramed. "If you wanted to make common cause with Europe in the Balkans, Grenell is the last American you would choose for the task."

Quitting in style, and what comes after; as usual, great stuff from @AskAManager.

Brutal truths about campaigning in the EU institutions. Especially the last one!

The earliest known cutomer service complaint. Nanni of Telmun says Ea-Nasir of Ur has been cheating him on the copper ingots (3700 years ago).

Fascinating from @PeterMartin_PCM and @iainmarlow.

Glorious from @JohnstonJules: "From 1 October, only 421 types of reptiles can be kept as pets in Flanders."

The remains of a young woman from sub-Saharan Africa, probably from the tenth century - in Gloucestershire.

Good summary by @DaraDoy.

Excellent on Susan Rice and Samantha Power by @JamesTraub1.

@astroehlein goes to Kaliningrad in search of Königsberg.

Great maths nerdery.

Sexual assault and British law.

Britain of the welcomes.

What happens when your parents read your novel translated into their native language? h/t @deuceofgears

As @patrickkmaguire pointes out, @DUPleader tends to mean what she says, and to say what she means.

"there is no evidence that the hedge funds that have backed Johnson’s election campaign have “millions of pounds” of speculative bets on no-deal Brexit."

Reflections on Munich and George VI, by @conbrunstrom.

Brussels takes notice of @naomi_long.

More on the theft of the golden toilet.

*gulp*

No, not really.

The fascinating postwar career of William Mahone.

Hooray!