Incredible article in which the complainants argue that 1) Montenegro’s objectively excellent flag is too gaudy for Pimlico and 2) living next to Montenegrins is bad for their mental health. This is it. The final boss of NIMBYism. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…

I am so putting a Montenegrin flag on my house!

There goes the neighbourhood: a woman in Pimlico claims that the ordeal of having to live next door to the Montenegrin embassy is giving her anxiety and is a violation of her human rights 😭 theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…

This is THE story don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

🇷🇸 Students continue celebrating their election victory over autocrat Vucic past midnight. They have school tomorrow.

This is Novi Sad, the site of the horrific awning collapse that killed 16 people, sparking the massive student-led protests that led to Vučić's demise two years later. Seeing the entire place bounce like this is truly a once-in-a-lifetime thing.

For years I’d wondered if, when, and how Vučić and his regime could be defeated. I never ever could have guessed it would be like this. Amazing. A lesson for all of us opposed to authoritarian rule in Europe.

An overlooked positive side effect of the Serbian parliamentary election today is that Ivica Dačić, the former spokesman of Slobodan Milošević’s Socialist Party of Serbia, appears to have been voted out of parliament, along with his party. One of the darkest figures in Serbian history is thus leaving the stage, hopefully for good.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump and his family have lost surprise elections, thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

Serbia: Former Presidenr Aleksandar Vucić just admitted defeat in the parliamentary elections.

VUČIĆ HAS ADMITTED DEFEAT STUDENT LIST AT OVER 130 SEATS ITS OVER

HUGE BREAKING: Aleksandar Vucic admits defeat, saying Students List has WON Serbia elections.

Former Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic just announced defeat in the elections, declaring a victory for the Student List.

Carmen Española and Γιώργος Έλληνας, born in 1980 and 1975 but both look 30 🤝 They are dating but live with their parents, but Giorgos' parents have another apartment under theirs that they will give him when he gets married. He probably buys crypto and thinks AI is the future.

Happy to announce I built a Greek/English reader site with all the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, & Aristophanes. Multiple translations for each play; click to parse & define for any Greek word; full Greek & English search. greekdrama.johnhboyer.com

It’s exhausting whenever an Irish news story goes international. Those commenting - even from nextdoor - are almost invariably clueless as to the context and detail of whatever they spout on about. With bigger countries at least there tends to be some awareness.

Can I have a 1+1 XXL pizza scam deal, please? Investigators suspect that Pizza Fan systematically recorded 1 in every 4 pizzas paid for in cash as a “complimentary” item, concealing 25% of VAT from the tax authorities. Evidence uncovered suggests the scheme began in 2016.

Greece has its own #Pizzagate scandal. As Greek families will now struggle to put cheap 1+1 pizzas on their kids' birthday party tables, the closure of Pizza Fan outlets nationwide could prove problematic for the government in the run-up to the election!