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Anthony Zacharzewski

Anthony Zacharzewski

Working to make European democracy work. "Refreshingly free of the usual platitudes". Belge par choix, Brits door opvoeding. President of Demsoc.org but posts here are personal.

📍 Brussels

A little victory

One piece of good news in the struggle between terrorism and politics: IRA ‘no longer a terrorist threat’ (Guardian).

The two faces of Birmingham

To Birmingham for a conference yesterday and a meeting this morning. Stayed in the Holiday Inn on Hill Street, which really needs a refurb internally (and is getting it), but is comfortable enough. Free wi-fi broadband as well, which is more than can be said for some hotels. Had dinner

So Mr. Tiddles is out, then?

Did you know there’s official Internet guidance (an RFC) on what name you should give your computer?

The Spanish don't think this way

Overheard on the bus, a (true) comment that shows the difference between the English and Spanish shopping cultures. “Well, I don’t like going to the market for my vegetables. They’re never as fresh, are they?”

Laugh or cry?

The Onion’s piece (Senate Wins Fight To Lower Allowable Amperage Levels On Detainees’ Testicles) is altogether too close to the reality of a world where the Senate has allowed noted humanitarian G. W. Bush to define the term torture, and to suspend habeas corpus for anyone he fancies. (BBC,

Will definitely contain nuts

More and more, it seems, the nutters are taking over the asylum Internet. Take this dispiriting discussion on the Graun’s website. In the first few posts, the Germans are Nazis, the Russians are Soviets, and the Brown Peril (was Yellow) is poised to sweep across Europe, which has been

Twenty common science myths

Chicken soup not good for colds; yawning not contagious; water drains backwards in the southern hemisphere LiveScience.com demolishes your illusions.

Charlie Brooker on t'Internet

Not a debate, here.

Spinach poisoning

The firm behind the e.coli outbreak in the US is called Natural Selection Foods.

Kangaroo courts: OK or not OK?

You’d think there’d be only one answer to the question, “should we destroy the Geneva Conventions?”, but you’d be wrong. The US Congress is debating the issue at the moment, with prominent Republicans like John McCain standing in opposition to the Bush and leadership line. The intellectual