A notorious network of violent Islamist hoodlums, concentrated in the rough-and-tumble district of Molenbeek in Brussels, has been operating in plain sight since the 1990s, planning, plotting and carrying out dozens of elaborate jihadi missions from Afghanistan to Algeria.
Margaret Thatcher and John Major knew that bluff and bravado doesn't work in Brussels.
Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
The doctors, whether based in Brussels or Paris, draw the same conclusions and write the same prescriptions.
As David Cameron so brutally found out in 2015-16, there is limited appetite in Brussels to be helpful or flexible towards Britain.
The obstacle for us is not Islam, but the bureaucrats in Brussels.