Our Man in Brussels is currently culling his notes, desperately seeing to emerge from a Franco-Flemish haze of hops, barley, mussels, and frites and make sense of the reams of notes he penned in a desperate attempt to stay awake during day-long roundtable monologues and discussions. He does recall asking a member of the Human Rights Commission, who had just explained the EU crackdown on torture devices, such as gallows and whips, how this was going to effect the S&M industry.
The response was, it seems, unclear.
