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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

The need for U2

I’ve just been watching an interview with U2 on BBC2’s the Culture Show. When I was a callow yoof, I used to get rather tired of musicians getting all political (this was under Thatcher, so there was quite a lot of it about). Just concentrate on the music,

What happened to Metro-Land

This blog was briefly called Metro-Land, but has now reverted to its former name, the Lewes Chronicle. (www.metro-land.org still works, as well as lewes.typepad.org) It was renamed Metro-Land when my wife got a job in that part of the world, and we planned to move to

A random selection of football clubs...

…and the history behind their crests.

The splitting of Fathers for Justice

A split within the Fathers for Justice protest group shows up disturbing militant tendencies in the militant wing.

A success for Europe, and about time too

The Swiss have voted to join the Schengen border-free zone, meaning that I won’t have to be woken at 2 a.m. to get my passport out when travelling from Brussels to Italy by train. More interestingly, the UK and Ireland are not members, even though the non-EU Norwegians

Scotland is a foreign country

A leading Scottish QC has been making sectarian jokes at a Rangers supporters’ dinner. Sectarianism, it’s hard to get your head round.

Map mash-ups

Several British Google map mash ups: * Find news on a local sports team * Travel News (seems not to work on Safari at present) * London traffic cams Fantastic stuff. O’Reilly Radar via the Map Room.

Forward to the past

In the Spectator this week (use bugmenot), Peter Oborne writes: The Conservative party has won all the great intellectual and political battles of the last quarter-century. It has defined – and continues to define – the public argument over the role of the state, the acceptable level of taxation, the nature of

Evolution and the Online Commons

OnTheCommons.org has a write-up of a recent session at the Berkman Centre, discussing the lessons that evolutionary and behavioural research can teach about buillding trust and relationships online.

Cricket clips

Something to while away the hours until the footy season starts again. Sussex CCC have launched a new site, with free Windows Media clips of match highlights, and a desktop scorecard.