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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

Ha ha ha ha ha ha

Ludicrous self-publicist Robert Kilroy-Silk has quit the party he founded, Veritas. Apparently, the ideas he espoused, such as immediate withdrawal from the European Union, abolishing inheritance tax on houses and expelling all asylum seekers (except those with children) are “now part of the political mainstream”. I can’t say I’

We are what we are

Tristram Hunt (author of the excellent Building Jerusalem) invokes Orwell in an excellent article in the New Statesman, on the nature of Britishness.

A historic day in Northern Ireland

That IRA statement in full.

The Rap Canterbury Tales

An amazing Rap version of some of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. via BBC News.

Make your own Google logo

Pretend you are the world’s leading search company. (via BoingBoing)

The dinner and democracy set

The Power Inquiry, which is still going strong, is proposing that people have dinner with each other and talk about democracy. Raita and representation or polenta and people power? Link via Demos Greenhouse.

Masson #4

Ooh, Doug Masson’s wife is in labour – good luck!

Spinning the web

Hansard Society research paper on on-line campaigning in the recent UK election, Spinning the Web. Interesting in parts, but brings to mind Marx’s dictum.

Envirowise up

Businesses can now find out how they could save money by being green, through the Government’s Envirowise web site. Link via Sussex Enterprise

Other Glasgow recommendations

Other recommendations from the Glasgow trip. Food: Bouzy Rouge seafood and grill, home of a huge and excellent Chateaubriand. Antipasti – a friendly and easygoing Italian, with a branch on Sauchiehall Street and one (the one we visited) on Byres Road in the cool West End. Theatre: Glasgow Rep‘s production