Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Whatever else they may be, good to see French students are still world-class slogan writers ... (translation in alt text if needed) 1117539
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Ah, so *this* is what they mean when they say AI poses an existential threat to humanity 1226
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It's actually a quite profound truth that had never really struck me ... Very lovely piece of writing 060
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026All true, but, you know ... France. I've been here on and off for 30 years and I've been doing stories about schoolkids (and other young people) setting bins on fire and battling police pretty much since the year I arrived 010
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Conclusion is a banger: "As we grow old, our tendency is to blame the city’s renewal for our growing apart from the life it holds ... By eulogising places, we choose to forget that all there ever is is people." 2313
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Pleased to see I'd already blocked whoever you addressed that to, but bravo all the same 0170
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026How do you sell a rabbit to a deaf man? No idea, how do you sell a rabbit to a deaf man? YOU WANNA BUY A RABBIT? 030
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"Suis en mode balek total" Just heard this, horribly late to it I'm sure but what a *very fine* French expression. Shortened version of the graphic "J'm'en bats les couilles" (which you'll have to look up if you don't know it). Rough equivalent of my Gen Z kids' perennial "CBA". 0140
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Calm down, everyone ... It ain't going to happen tomorrow 341
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Next time you're arguing with an irredeemably Mélenchonist mate get them to read this. Blistering compendium of the old rabble rouser's greatest (as it were) hits by @iamhurst.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comJean-Luc Mélenchon will win young French voters – until they realise the size of his Russia blind spot | Alexander HurstLa France Insoumise gives voice to the left-behind, and progressives approve. But many recoil from a leftwing leader whose foreign policy is stuck in 1985, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hur... 0123
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Anyone in UK confused about Burnham's pensions triple lock proposal: @benchu.bsky.social explains the impact so even someone (naming no names) who once failed a maths O level can understand it 031
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As someone wise once said, once you're past 60 if you wake up in the morning and nothing hurts you're probably dead... 120
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Don't think this is entirely the end of the story - Anderson's putting pressure on the Left, a bit of political gamesmanship going on 010
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Indeed. I think it's more the absurdity of the people in the UK trying to define English as an ethnicity that has prompted the "don't forget countries are made up things" discourse 110
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The fact that something was invented doesn't mean it's not real, though... 120
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Jabs (and for flu) available in about three weeks' time, Oct 13 I believe 120
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Not just Bake Off, but Bake Off with added NIGELLA... 120
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Many, many congratulations Annette! Richly deserved 040
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Ah, there was another one in 1848... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...en.wikipedia.orgFrench Revolution of 1848 - Wikipedia 000
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Don't get dragged into a conversation with @anglo-european.bsky.social , Holger, he's been told countless times by everyone from specialist Europe correspondents to former EU officials to professors of EU law that he's wrong about pretty much everything he posts but he refuses to accept it 070
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The second of these screen grabs will make @timbale.bsky.social even more 🤬🤬🤬 than he is about the BetFred guy ... (not that the first is much better, mind you) 160
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Yup like 20 years earlier, but he clearly recovered ... 010
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Well how very French. In the flat (now a museum) of 19th century philosopher Auguste Comte, father of positivism, a voucher issued by a Paris theatre to disappointed ticket holders on February 24th 1848 after the evening's performance was "cancelled due to revolution" 415746
Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026So this is basically the arrangement the US and Greenland have had for the past several decades 1150
