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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

Compromising with the uncompromising

The Government has annnounced its new immigration policy. It’s “responding to people’s very real worries”, apparently. Well, call me a dogmatist, but I don’t think that the Government should be appeasing the poisonous libels of the Mail and its ilk. Today’s Mail headline said it all

OpenDemocracy - the All Bran of political debate

All Bran is very good for you, but sometimes – just sometimes – you want Frosties. This advert (!) from openDemocracy today: openDemocracy writers bring life to philosophy: * “Iraq, philosophy in war” – articles on Immanuel Kant, Dostoevsky, and Leo Strauss * “Robert Nozick, anarcho-capitalist” (May 2002) * Ramin Jahanbegloo & Richard Rorty, “America’s dreaming”

And now, here is the news from Tory central office

Clean hospitals and no bus lanes. (via Honourable Fiend)

A really stupid idea

Put the main competitive event of the football season (given the League position) in the middle of the week.

Rand at 100

Excellent discussion in this MetaFilter thread on the life and philosophy of Ayn Rand.

Death penalty ironies

From the NY Times front page on the web: “The D.A. [of Los Angeles] said today that he would probably seek the death penalty for the suicidal man who left his S.U.V. on a track.”

Tube photos

Some great photos of tube stations. More interesting than it sounds. (via MeFi)

Techy but strangely fascinating

A history of the new wide-screen test card.

Desperate times

Two sorts of desperation on display today. The Conservative party have said they’ll make immigration a central issue of the election campaign. And Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has declared war on the principle of democracy.

In the buffer zone

Rereading my last post, I realise that I am perfectly qualified to be a high-paid “diary” columnist on the Daily Telegraph. The Barclay Brothers can email me for the address to send the cheques.