Anthony Zacharzewski
@anthonyzach.be
Working to make European democracy work. "Refreshingly free of the usual platitudes". Belge par choix, Brits door opvoeding, Polish roots. President of Demsoc.org
Last night’s film was Skiff, a 🇧🇪 queer coming-of-age story by Cecilia Verheyden. Overall decent but what really stood out was the performance of Femke Vanhove as lead character Malou. Gave me strong Tilda Swinton in Orlando vibes. See it if you get the chance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSv_...
SKIFF - OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL TRAILER
YouTube video by Outplay Films International
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February 9, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Last night’s film was Skiff, a 🇧🇪 queer coming-of-age story by Cecilia Verheyden. Overall decent but what really stood out was the performance of Femke Vanhove as lead character Malou. Gave me strong Tilda Swinton in Orlando vibes. See it if you get the chance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSv_...
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February 9, 2026 at 7:10 PM
February 9, 2026 at 7:04 PM
The 48-hour-work-trip-with-only-an-iPhone-17-because-I-left-my-laptop-on-the-sofa Challenge starts now!
February 9, 2026 at 8:57 AM
The 48-hour-work-trip-with-only-an-iPhone-17-because-I-left-my-laptop-on-the-sofa Challenge starts now!
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Ah, it’s not the Member States who have spent the last few decades blocking all meaningful progress on a range of reforms who need to get serious, but the Commission, which doesn’t even have a vote on these issues. Right.
EU countries are piling pressure on the European Commission to get serious about turning around the bloc’s sluggish economy, amid fears it could be left at the mercy of other big players like the U.S. and China.
Brussels Playbook has more 👇
Brussels Playbook has more 👇
Time to grow up
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February 9, 2026 at 7:58 AM
Ah, it’s not the Member States who have spent the last few decades blocking all meaningful progress on a range of reforms who need to get serious, but the Commission, which doesn’t even have a vote on these issues. Right.
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Kind of gives away the whole game that all the crypto ads this year have been replaced with gambling and AI ads.
February 9, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Kind of gives away the whole game that all the crypto ads this year have been replaced with gambling and AI ads.
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Welcome to Blue Labour who fantasise about a working class that hasn’t existed for decades and long for an economic policy that was divorced from reality when Benn first suggested it, never mind now.
February 8, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Welcome to Blue Labour who fantasise about a working class that hasn’t existed for decades and long for an economic policy that was divorced from reality when Benn first suggested it, never mind now.
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The Downing Street chief of staff's job just can't be 'winning the election'. That's someone else's job! It would be like if someone went 'he was ruthlessly focussed on cost control in Whitehall's canteens'....okay, but that's *someone else's job*!
February 8, 2026 at 8:27 PM
The Downing Street chief of staff's job just can't be 'winning the election'. That's someone else's job! It would be like if someone went 'he was ruthlessly focussed on cost control in Whitehall's canteens'....okay, but that's *someone else's job*!
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🇭🇺🇪🇺 "Hungary's opposition Tisza party plans to introduce a wealth tax for the rich, adopt the euro currency and firmly anchor Hungary in the European Union and NATO, its 240-page election programme published on Saturday said." @reuters.com
Hungary's opposition Tisza promises wealth tax, euro adoption in election programme
Hungary's opposition Tisza party plans to introduce a wealth tax for the rich, adopt the euro currency and firmly anchor Hungary in the European Union and NATO, its 240-page election programme publish...
www.reuters.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:46 PM
🇭🇺🇪🇺 "Hungary's opposition Tisza party plans to introduce a wealth tax for the rich, adopt the euro currency and firmly anchor Hungary in the European Union and NATO, its 240-page election programme published on Saturday said." @reuters.com
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Serious people abroad taking PET (Putin-Epstein-Trump) seriously.
www.reuters.com/world/poland...
www.reuters.com/world/poland...
Poland to probe possible links between Epstein and Russia, PM Tusk says
Poland will launch an investigation into possible links between the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Russian intelligence, as well as any impact on Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tues...
www.reuters.com
February 8, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Serious people abroad taking PET (Putin-Epstein-Trump) seriously.
www.reuters.com/world/poland...
www.reuters.com/world/poland...
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"Bernard-Henri Lévy, celui que ma concierge prend pour un journaliste, les journalistes pour un philosophe et les philosophes pour ma concierge."
Pierre Bourdieu, Recueil Interventions, 1961-2001
Pierre Bourdieu, Recueil Interventions, 1961-2001
February 6, 2026 at 1:27 PM
"Bernard-Henri Lévy, celui que ma concierge prend pour un journaliste, les journalistes pour un philosophe et les philosophes pour ma concierge."
Pierre Bourdieu, Recueil Interventions, 1961-2001
Pierre Bourdieu, Recueil Interventions, 1961-2001
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I guess Blue Labour will never have been really tried…
Morgan McSweeney is on the brink of resigning "on his own terms," according to the Sunday Times www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
February 7, 2026 at 10:33 PM
I guess Blue Labour will never have been really tried…
Early start for Liège to drop in on a work event but the reward of an hour reading in a sunny café waiting for @dzyrl.bsky.social. Then an afternoon at the Grand Curtius museum which is as extensive as its name suggests.
February 7, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Early start for Liège to drop in on a work event but the reward of an hour reading in a sunny café waiting for @dzyrl.bsky.social. Then an afternoon at the Grand Curtius museum which is as extensive as its name suggests.
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Singapore as a model has faded away in the U.K.
Not doable in Belgium either.
Politicians have to craft some visions. De Wever argues for scale and proposes to reconstitute the Spanish Netherlands, sans Espagnole, with LU as a single state.
Catnip for the base!
Not doable in Belgium either.
Politicians have to craft some visions. De Wever argues for scale and proposes to reconstitute the Spanish Netherlands, sans Espagnole, with LU as a single state.
Catnip for the base!
February 7, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Singapore as a model has faded away in the U.K.
Not doable in Belgium either.
Politicians have to craft some visions. De Wever argues for scale and proposes to reconstitute the Spanish Netherlands, sans Espagnole, with LU as a single state.
Catnip for the base!
Not doable in Belgium either.
Politicians have to craft some visions. De Wever argues for scale and proposes to reconstitute the Spanish Netherlands, sans Espagnole, with LU as a single state.
Catnip for the base!
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The outlets so far, as far as I can see, are reporting this as a single event.
It is not.
It's the Third time at least Reform have run this.
Patricia Clegg is a real person, but what they did with her letter, is Reforms work.
They blamed the Printer, the Printer has apologised.
THREE TIMES?
It is not.
It's the Third time at least Reform have run this.
Patricia Clegg is a real person, but what they did with her letter, is Reforms work.
They blamed the Printer, the Printer has apologised.
THREE TIMES?
Reform UK’s ‘Dear Neighbour’ Trick: Same Electoral Law Problem in Wirral West, Caerphilly and Gorton & Denton
Wirral West 2024. Caerphilly 2025. Gorton & Denton 2026. Same party, same missing imprints, same ‘concerned neighbour' trick
politicalsatirical.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:37 AM
The outlets so far, as far as I can see, are reporting this as a single event.
It is not.
It's the Third time at least Reform have run this.
Patricia Clegg is a real person, but what they did with her letter, is Reforms work.
They blamed the Printer, the Printer has apologised.
THREE TIMES?
It is not.
It's the Third time at least Reform have run this.
Patricia Clegg is a real person, but what they did with her letter, is Reforms work.
They blamed the Printer, the Printer has apologised.
THREE TIMES?
I haven’t read the book yet but this “Singapore model” nonsense is 🙄
Dans un essai, Bart De Wever propose le modèle de Singapour pour remettre la Belgique sur les rails
www.dhnet.be/actu/belgiqu...
Dans un essai, Bart De Wever propose le modèle de Singapour pour remettre la Belgique sur les rails
www.dhnet.be/actu/belgiqu...
Dans un essai, Bart De Wever propose le modèle de Singapour pour remettre la Belgique sur les rails
Bart De Wever veut renouer avec le siècle d'or des "Plats Pays", confie-t-il dans un essai publié samedi.
www.dhnet.be
February 7, 2026 at 8:28 AM
I haven’t read the book yet but this “Singapore model” nonsense is 🙄
Dans un essai, Bart De Wever propose le modèle de Singapour pour remettre la Belgique sur les rails
www.dhnet.be/actu/belgiqu...
Dans un essai, Bart De Wever propose le modèle de Singapour pour remettre la Belgique sur les rails
www.dhnet.be/actu/belgiqu...
Good public services are good politics, and good for democracy. “Cost recovery” of this sort is spoiling the ship for a pennyworth of tar.
“I graduated with £42,000 of debt and even though I’m paying it off, it’s now £72,000.”
It's truly an abomination: On a normal job you keep paying forever. 40 years!
“Why would I trust a government that mis-sold me a loan when I was a child?” is a very good question.
www.ft.com/content/7bf5...
It's truly an abomination: On a normal job you keep paying forever. 40 years!
“Why would I trust a government that mis-sold me a loan when I was a child?” is a very good question.
www.ft.com/content/7bf5...
February 6, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Good public services are good politics, and good for democracy. “Cost recovery” of this sort is spoiling the ship for a pennyworth of tar.
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to me this is one of the craziest things in these texts. Epstein set up meetings with board members of Open Society Foundation, the Soros group, dangling his money but using the meetings as intelligence gathering opportunities. He would then pass on strategy tips to Bannon, to help him destroy OSF.
Epstein was a scheming bastard, goddamn. He met with OSF board members acting like he was going to give them money but never did and never intended to. The meetings were intelligence gathering opportunities and he passed on his wisdom to Bannon, who intends to destroy OSF.
February 6, 2026 at 4:07 PM
to me this is one of the craziest things in these texts. Epstein set up meetings with board members of Open Society Foundation, the Soros group, dangling his money but using the meetings as intelligence gathering opportunities. He would then pass on strategy tips to Bannon, to help him destroy OSF.
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Every Winter Olympian‘s bio during this opening ceremony is “The child of diplomats, he learned short track skating during his parents UN posting in Geneva. He switched to luge after excelling on the internal JP Morgan track during his internship.” #openingceremomy #winterolympics
February 6, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Every Winter Olympian‘s bio during this opening ceremony is “The child of diplomats, he learned short track skating during his parents UN posting in Geneva. He switched to luge after excelling on the internal JP Morgan track during his internship.” #openingceremomy #winterolympics
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"Voter suppression is one of the core tools of authoritarianism. It is how you shift from democracy to autocracy. And for millions of Americans, it’s about to become the norm"
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
How Autocrats Meddle With Elections
The Trump administration has its eyes on the midterms and beyond.
www.theatlantic.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:09 PM
"Voter suppression is one of the core tools of authoritarianism. It is how you shift from democracy to autocracy. And for millions of Americans, it’s about to become the norm"
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
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this is the crux of my argument: the House of Commons just wasn't built with "over 600 pretty normal and reasonably clever professionals who love being in Parliament" in mind, and that's why everything's broken now youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/politics-i...
February 6, 2026 at 10:24 AM
this is the crux of my argument: the House of Commons just wasn't built with "over 600 pretty normal and reasonably clever professionals who love being in Parliament" in mind, and that's why everything's broken now youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/politics-i...
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Remember the controversy when Obama was accused of intervening in UK politics? This is the current US government openly seeking to undermine liberal democracy in Europe.
February 6, 2026 at 7:14 AM
Remember the controversy when Obama was accused of intervening in UK politics? This is the current US government openly seeking to undermine liberal democracy in Europe.
Good work, everyone. Let’s keep it up.
"The average cost to mine one Bitcoin is currently...far higher than its current going rate, making it an extremely unprofitable proposition. It’s a massive wipeout as investors continue to sell off their reserves...."
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Bitcoin Is Crashing So Hard That Miners Are Unplugging Their Equipment
Bitcoin's plunge has made it far less economical to mine the digital token. Some companies are starting to unplug their equipment.
futurism.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:15 AM
Good work, everyone. Let’s keep it up.
Interesting podcast on the far right in Belgium, why it barely exists in Wallonie and why it nearly fell apart in Flanders - I learned a lot. overcast.fm/+AABkOEQEgxo
L’extrême droite en Belgique — Un Jour dans l'Histoire
En Belgique, comme ailleurs, l’extrême droite connaît un nouvel essor dans ce premier quart du 21e siècle, particulièrement en Flandre où le Vlaams Belang s’est imposé comme un acteur incontournable c...
overcast.fm
February 6, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Interesting podcast on the far right in Belgium, why it barely exists in Wallonie and why it nearly fell apart in Flanders - I learned a lot. overcast.fm/+AABkOEQEgxo