Right. Friends of Europe event ends this morning. Then #CrossBorderRail this afternoon - Bruxelles to Ústí nad Labem 🇨🇿. Thread will start at lunchtime.

Struggling to get going today.

So struck from yesterday‘s event that the politicians were not only the poorest speakers, but they were the most disconnected and the most intellectually lazy. And these were people from mainstream parties.

Step by step I’m losing all trust in this elite I’ve always been on the fringes of.

This sort of thing.

Diplomat plates BMW on the pavement as I left, to go get my bike. I think I was one of only two cyclists, at an event of 200 people.

But then I read @can (who I’ve never met, but on Mastodon seems like a super person) met a friend of mine Arian who is a train manager on the Berlin-Stockholm night train, on board the train, and that makes me happy. I know so many super people - just pretty much none of them are close to any levers of political power.