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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

Hatchards - bookshop in the Buffer Zone

I bought a book at Hatchards on Piccadilly the other day. I’m very fond of it – I’ve been going there since I was a kid – but it really is the prime bookshop of the Buffer Zone (that area of wine merchants, hatters, art dealers etc., around St. James’

Worrying noises from the Kremlin

Apparently, the breakup of the USSR was the greatest geo-political catastrophe of the 20th century – something of a surprise on Anzac Day, 60 years after the liberation of the concentration camps. In an entirely related point, he’s also said that Russia “will decide for itself the pace, terms and

Exeter's season over

Exeter performed well to win 0-2 at Carlisle, but results elsewhere didn’t go their way, and they ended up a point outside the play-off places.

This is what desperation looks like

From pub bore politics to twitchy paranoia.

A good New Yorker cartoon

From the New Yorker cartoon store.

Kids and perspective

I was in London and St. Albans today, looking around at couples with and without children. I thought about the time my wife and I had together before the kids came along, and about the career thinking I’ve done before and since. You hear a lot of people say

How not to design a web site

Every time I try to buy a train ticket from the Trainline in the UK, I get angry. It just has too many brainless avoidable problems, such as: * The site is unbearably slow and clunky, particularly compared to something like Expedia * It only seems to work well on Windows PCs

Britain's shame spreads further

I had thought that the Daily Mail was a private grief, but apparently not. So, not content with poisoning our national debate, they now trash our record in the eyes of the foreign press.

Digby tells it like it is

A welcome intervention from the CBI. Sir Digby Jones – a natural Tory if ever there was one – has attacked the Conservative Party’s immigration policy.

ITV's finest hour

Remember Rodney Hylton-Potts, the racist nutter who won ITV’s woeful “Vote for Me” a while back? Despite the overblown PR puff that preceded the programme, it was a ghastly, ghastly failure, shoved into a graveyard slot, and ‘starring’ seven would-be politicians who made my district councillor look like Gladstone.