The big two-five-zero

Today, February 19, 2011, makes 250 days that Belgium has not had a government. Because the French speaking region and the Dutch speaking region have different political views, they've always disagreed at least partly over the running of the government. And this year - well, 2010 - their differences have left them 250 days without a new government. It's actually a really fascinating situation, but to cut a long story short, the parliament needs to chose a prime minister because one doesn't vote directly for the prime minister in Belgium, and so far they haven't been able to so. Yesterday we claimed the world record, finally beating Iraq to 249 days without a government...