Author Archives: Anthony Zacharzewski

The Voice: Democratising Twitter in Belgium

Judging from this piece in Le Soir (Belgium) business pages, Twitter hasn’t yet hit the mainstream at least in Francophone Belgium. RTBF put Twitter front and centre during its version of singing contest The Voice, with contestants being taken into … Continue reading

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Media regulation: what new democracy needs

Good democracy needs good information. When an article starts like that, you can bet that before long we’ll be talking about the right of free speech, and maybe bringing in a quotation from a Founding Father or some other Enlightenment … Continue reading

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Early infographic from Nazi occupation of Poland

I visited the sobering but fascinating museum of the German occupation of Kraków today, located in the Schindler factory in Podgórze. One thing that struck my eye – following on from this Ministry of Information infographic – was a Nazi infographic, … Continue reading

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Referendum on Lords Reform ahead?

If this is true: A major spanner has been thrown into coalition plans for House of Lords reform after a joint select committee surprisingly agreed to recommend that an elected second chamber should only be introduced after the constitutional change … Continue reading

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French presidential campaign websites: game on!

Meandering around the French presidential campaign websites, it’s almost too easy to draw comparisons between site and candidate. Insurgent leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon has a blog that doesn’t quite have <blink> tags, but feels distinctly 2005 (though his party website is … Continue reading

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Farewell COI

The weekend saw the final end of the venerable Central Office of Information (COI). As the agency that handled Government information and advertising, and with a heritage in the WW2 Ministry of Information, it had some great images to be … Continue reading

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The businessman’s case for EU regulation

You don’t often read a full-throated defence of business regulation. Less often praise for European regulatory systems. Still less often calls for the EU to go further and faster on creating new rules. So here’s a triple surprise: an article … Continue reading

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Risk reward

The NHS Risk Register has been leaked and, if you’re someone who used to have to read the blasted things in the past, it looks much as you would expect. If you’re coming to it new, it probably looks either … Continue reading

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March of the tastemakers

If you can get to it (free registration gives you a limited number of articles a month), the FT today has a very interesting examination of social curation sites such as Pinterest. Networks of friends and contacts are becoming a … Continue reading

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Anger v. Debate

I want to like an article that claims to argue “we should rely more on respectful debate”, but unfortunately Matthew Taylor in today’s Observer spends most of his piece disappearing down rabbit holes. He’s certainly right to say: the welcome retreat … Continue reading

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