Political scientist Hendrik Vos was working on a podcast about Schuman, who was named after a roundabout in Brussels’ EU Quarter (are you sure about this? —Eds) when he was involved in a car crash. According to Der Standaard, a “backpack lay against the broken window, containing ‘Pour l’Europe,’ the book with which Robert Schuman laid the foundation for the European Union.”
The Catholic Church has been discussing Schuman’s path toward possible sainthood for some time and Vos got in touch to tell them about the ‘Miracle of Waasmunster,’ the town of about 10,000 people where the crash took place.
Speaking of miracles, the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party will surely need one to win the next election. Unless, that is, they get rid of their beards!
British media have written that Tory members of parliament are shaving off their beards because they have been told voters don’t like facial hair (yeah, that’s the reason the Tories will lose the election, not Boris Johnson and Liz Truss and …).
An unnamed senior Tory told The Sun: “Apparently beards are a turn-off. I’ve lost count of the number of times people have said voters are less likely to back you if you have a beard.”
He added: “So it has come off. But it is going straight back on after the election” — thereby breaking yet another election promise.
