13 June 2022
Johan Leman
When I walked past the “Picnic the Bridge” and the activists at the Bourse yesterday in Brussels, I was struck by how strongly these actions are supported by a progressive […]
11 June 2022
Johan Leman
In the 1980s, Integration of education in One’s Own Language and Culture was an educational model applied in Limburg, Ghent, Antwerp and, in its Foyer variant, also in Brussels, but […]
9 June 2022
Johan Leman
“Banks are legally obliged to provide a basic service,” wrote a professional journalist who happened to be present while one of Foyer’s employees was accompanying a lady who wanted to […]
6 June 2022
Johan Leman
It happens too often not to be noticed. And yet, the media continue to glorify the announcement policy to the detriment of the real evaluation of the policy pursued. If […]
2 June 2022
Johan Leman
For some time now, it has been noticeable that ministers and political parties attach more importance to emphasising where they make the difference with others than to building on existing […]
30 May 2022
Johan Leman
On 5 May, I published an Opinion here about the predictable shortages in education. Add to that the predictable, ever-growing shortages in childcare. What do governments do? In both cases, […]
20 May 2022
Johan Leman
“Brussels struggles with the heat. It can be three degrees hotter on average in the metropolis than in the countryside. But it is the people in Brussels with the lowest […]
18 May 2022
Johan Leman
Brussels has an enormous potential of candidate (sub)top sportsmen and sportswomen. It could also become a city with the greatest possible variety of sports, which in itself could be very […]
14 May 2022
Johan Leman
At the end of his 1962 book, The Gutenberg Galaxy, Marshall McLuhan predicted that in the very near future, new technologies would supplant the printed word and the culture that […]
10 May 2022
Johan Leman
An anthropological reading of some of the results of “De Stemming” (2022), as found in the media. In anthropology, there are two main criteria to describe ethnic self-awareness and to […]