Longread: “Schaam u, meneer De Wever” | Vluchtelingen | De Morgen
Hij kon zijn oren niet geloven toen Bart De Wever deze week verkondigde dat erkende vluchtelingen een apart sociaal statuut moeten krijgen. Henri Heimans, voormalig topmagistraat en voorvechter van de geïnterneerden, is zelf de zoon van een politiek vluchteling. 'Dit is dwaze, populistische praat.'

See Very Early Concert Footage of the B-52s, When New Wave Music Was Actually New (1978) | Open Culture
Pop music, I had already decided, was for suckers. The only sounds that spoke to me were loud, abrasive, and deliberately unlovely. Then someone in our dorm put on “Rock Lobster” and it blew my narrow mind.

The Art of Onfim
The drawings from Novgorod that we have found appear to all come from a Russian boy named Onfim, who lived at the end of the twelfth century or beginning of the thirteenth century in the city of Novgorod. By the estimate of the archaeologists who unearthed his works, he was around seven years old at the time that he made these drawings.

‘Spreek elkaar aan op asociaal kalasjnikovgebruik’ | De Speld
Het is een groeiende frustratie in de publieke ruimte: mensen die een terreuraanslag willen plegen met een kalasjnikov, terwijl omstanders daar last van hebben. Een bewustwordingscampagne moet ervoor zorgen dat mensen elkaar durven aan te spreken op terroristisch gedrag.

Isis blinds journalists with its barbarity, but we must continue to report – Comment – Voices – The Independent
Why does Isis never attack Israel – indeed, why does its hatred of Crusaders and Shias and Christians and sometimes Jews rarely if ever mention the very word “Israel”? And why do Israel’s air raids on Syria always target Syrian government or pro-Syrian Iranian forces, but never Isis? Indeed, why are Turkey’s air assaults on Isis – happily supported by Nato – far outnumbered by their air raids on the Kurdish PKK, some of whose forces in Syria are fighting Isis? And how come the Turkish press have publicised a convoy of weapons being taken across the Syrian border to Isis by Turkish intelligence agents? Are Turkish engineers running the Isis-controlled oil wells, as Syrian oil engineers claim?