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A decade after Brexit, is Brussels becoming the new Marseille?

The Belgian capital remains the symbolic centre of the EU project. But it's also grappling with a wave of violence more commonly associated with Europe's major drug-trafficking hubs.

Thijs Broekkamp reports: 👇

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"A recent municipal survey found that every single Peterbos respondent reported some degree of depression, attributed to living conditions and fear of violence."

Thijs Broekkamp reports:

https://t.co/TLY1gpMOZg

[Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi]

Here's the first of three reports we're publishing this month from places at the heart of the Brexit story, ten years on.

We begin in Brussels, the beating heart of the EU, with a stark dispatch on life beyond the city's gleaming diplomatic quarter:👇

[tim abrahams @timabrahams]

Perfectly imperfect. If you want to gauge the crisis at the heart of continental Europe's culture, then get thee to Brussels. First link to a great @dispatch__media overview. Second to a @machine_books produced podcast on Europe's most important new art museum being built there.

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https://t.co/v0nxPCAGnb

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A decade after Brexit, is Brussels becoming the new Marseille?

The Belgian capital remains the symbolic centre of the EU project. But it's also grappling with a wave of violence more commonly associated with Europe's major drug-trafficking hubs.

Thijs Broekkamp reports: 👇

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"Fish and chips tastes too good for us to let it die." ~

@AngusColwell reports on Scarborough's battered chippies: 👇

https://t.co/2yzH0p8woV

[Angus Colwell @AngusColwell]

I went to Scarborough for @dispatch__media to talk to struggling fish and chip shop owners, as yet another nail gets hammered into the chippies’ coffin. I became convinced the owners must be mad to keep going.

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@AngusColwell https://t.co/2yzH0p8woV

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England’s chippies are getting battered.

In Scarborough — the capital of fish and chips — the Iran war, soaring fuel costs and dwindling fish stocks have sent prices soaring.

So why do chippy owners keep frying?

@AngusColwell reports: 👇

[Miles Ellingham @milesellingham]

Incredibly pleased to be featured in @Longreads again, for my story on Borat's village. That's a third pick @dispatch__media and goes to show what you can do even with a very small team. Massive thanks to @wells_ca for giving it a read.

[Laura Beveridge @LauraBeveridge7]

Lots of people talking about how Rupert Lowe managed to out-insurgent Reform.

Last month, I wrote about who his online followers are and why they like him 👇

[Jacob Furedi @jacobfuredi]

Our World Cup coverage begins with a genuinely lovely story about how Cornish miners brought football to Mexico — and how the country’s lower leagues are still rooted in mining towns and union politics.

Some v cool photos also: 👇

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The miners of Mexico's lower leagues:
https://t.co/T49jCBD8nI

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The World Cup comes to Mexico next month — but the soul of the game was brought there by Cornish miners 200 years ago.

Ella Benson Easton reports from the towns built on that legacy: 🇲🇽

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Britain's UFO hunters lack the Hollywood allure of their American peers. When they are not writing entries about Mansfield’s flying saucers into spreadsheets, their evenings are spent stargazing on chilly hilltops with doggers and teens smoking joints.

~ @GuhFuhLuh

https://t.co/HCG2YWDHWU

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@GuhFuhLuh https://t.co/beYVPWv3Mo

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Britain’s UFO scene has splintered into rival camps, with a younger generation accusing the old guard of relying on dated techniques.

George Frances Lee (@GuhFuhLuh) reports: 👽

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Inside today's Weekend Dispatch:

🗞️ A cat killer in Coventry
🗞️ The end of Skegness
🗞️ A guide to maggot therapy
🗞️ Kim Kardiashian's underwear

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[Miles Ellingham @milesellingham]

Some odd characters have converged on Glod over the years (see below: globetrotting lawyer disbarred for misappropriating funds for holocaust victims. Also Borat obv)

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"Borat needs to pay for his mistakes because he mocked us. He mocked us and he lied."

Twenty years on, the villagers of Glod haven't forgiven their humiliation. @milesellingham reports:

https://t.co/9qk7MkLtVJ