clipped from www.bbc.co.uk

Divided Belgium

Each day another black, red and gold flag seems to sprout from the window of a house or apartment. I'm tempted, just out of devilment, to stick a black lion rampant on a gold field out of my bedroom window. But the Flemish flag might not go down too well in my French-speaking part of Brussels.

The profusion of flags is a patriotic but also partisan response to the failure of political parties to form a government. It’s now 108 days after the general election.