It's European Day of Languages, so here are some of our favourite untranslatable and wonderfully-specific words from across Europe that we wish we had in English ✨

Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend

Yesterday 31st August 2026 we celebrate the 8th publishing anniversary of "320 rue St Jacques - The Diary of Madeleine Blaess" by @wmichallat.bsky.social

Just remember this message is aimed at your children not theirs.

⚫ Le penseur belge Raoul Vaneigem, mort cette semaine à 92 ans, fut aux côtés de Guy Debord l’une des figures du situationnisme, ce mouvement de contestation radicale du capitalisme et de la «société du spectacle», inspirateur de Mai 68. ➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/Vc3

If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.

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Morticia Addams: Witnessing Karma Like

ALT: Morticia Addams: Witnessing Karma Like

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History books by women are also available

Belgian team doing the 'Trump Dance' 😅

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 3mo ago

Belgian team celebrating their win in the locker room.

Edgar Morin, sociologue du temps présent et agitateur d’idées, est mort à l’âge de 104 ans

Edgar Morin, sociologue du temps présent et agitateur d’idées, est mort à l’âge de 104 ans

Il n’aura cessé de penser les événements de l’histoire dans un corps-à-corps haletant avec le siècle. Attaché à relier les savoirs afin d’élaborer sa « pensée complexe », cet intellectuel populaire et profondément humaniste militait pour une insurrection des consciences. Il s’est éteint vendredi 29 mai à Paris, indique son épouse au Monde.

lemonde.fr

Lower the pension age to 65. That'd help.

Pippa Crerar@pippacrerar.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Britain risks financial hit worth £125bn a year from worsening crisis in youth worklessness after rise in number of young people not in employment or education to more than one million. Full story 👇 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

twenty years ago people attacked universities by deriding “Mickey Mouse degrees” like media studies in favour of “proper” subjects like history, and now universities are skipping that step and simply abolishing everything that isn’t economics

Ceri Houlbrook@cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

i hate when people shame others for mispronouncing a word they’ve only ever read. correct them, fine, but like let’s give grace to readers to talk about what they read.

Back in Bradford at MyLahore 😃❤️

Spain MEP Irene Montero: “Send your son, Donald Trump — If you want war, send your own people to the front line. We in Spain want our children, our daughters, & our loved ones at home, safe. We don’t want war — those who want war should send their own children”

#WutheringHeights Sweepcliff.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

🚨 NEW EP OUT EARLY in case of… you know… 🚨 “I’m Mandy, buy me.” The Mandelson downfall horrifies even seasoned scandal-watchers. Could it consume Starmer too? 🚨 With @jonnelledge.bsky.social @rostaylor.bsky.social @rafaelbehr.bsky.social & @nndroid.bsky.social 🚨 Listen: linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

genuinely stunning image

Thanks once again to the Times Higher for reminding us all - hundreds of job losses and the evisceration of entire disciplines later - who the real victim is in all of this.

Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Cardiff University’s plans to cut 400 academic jobs and close several departments prompted a media firestorm that heaped opprobrium on its v-c. But she also received support for her efforts to put the university back on an even financial keel, she tells Chris Havergal https://ow.ly/c2Oy50XGUf0

Is there a difference between how Reform & the 'new' Green Party do politics? 🤔

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Emily Thornberry makes an incredibly patronising, smug video on Labour account on Instagram - even by her standards! These Labour ministers with Reform- just can't seem to stop talking about the Green Party. And it's just making membership rise & rise! Join.greenparty.org.uk

Hard-hitting truth-telling from UCL Prof Anthony Costello…. “The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.” www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...

230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry

The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello

bylinesupplement.com

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

Cost of the Covid furlough scheme was around £70 billion plus £3.5 billion attributed to maladministration & fraud. Not a bad budget, all things considered

Some people do all their ageing before 30 & then don't age at all, ever - like Barry Bannon #swfc

“It broke my heart, that was my savings towards a new car,” one woman who paid Milne tens of thousands of pounds told us. “He has just wiped me out.” Who is Andrew Milne - the solicitor sending "very aggressive" letters to Sheffield homeowners? www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...

A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived

Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says

sheffieldtribune.co.uk

Brilliant #Turner2025 exhibition at our Cartwright Hall here in Bradford. Proud that we can do this sort of thing here. Exhibits from shortlisted contenders Nnena Kalu, Mohammed Sami, and Zadie Xa, Rene Matic