Anthony Zacharzewski

Plus: Moldovan comedy, Victorian MPs and kidnapped Europe.

Or, the inadequacy of sortition.

Plus: do citizens want to be involved, why is Russia as it is, and what's happening to Brussels' water features.

A short service announcement

Democracy innovators need to find their theory of government

One of the pleasures of Belgian politics, at least compared to British politics in recent years, is its focus on actual issues rather than nonsensical culture wars. So it has been with a terrible feeling of familiarity that I have watched centre-right parties in Flanders and Wallonie go on the

It's not January? I hadn't noticed

Celebrating the 107th of January

Small Slavic languages, Emily in Paris and shopping arcades