WYPIERDALAĆ. Get the fuck out. This is the word heard everywhere across Poland now. I know, it’s vulgar, and redactor Čulik would probably try to smooth it out, but please don’t. We are journalists, and our duty is to inform, to tell how it is. And this is how it is: Poles don’t ask politely […]
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This is how “The Handmaid’s Tale” would begin if it was real.
Today, Polish constitutional tribunal ruled, that the termination of pregnancy when fetus is ill, deformed or unlikely to survive on it’s own is against Polish constitution. This was one of the three cases when abortion was legal in Poland (other two being when the baby is a result of a rape and if the mother’s […]
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As president Duda promised, the COVID curve has flattened in the middle of October. And so the lifes go back to normal. A rosary march took place in Warsaw, during which its participants were praying to God to “compensate him for profanations and insults caused by followers of neo-marcists LGBT ideology”. In Wadowice there was […]
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Remember Przemysław Czarnek, Education Minister to be, one of the main heroes of the last chapter of this series? Remember, how he announced that he has been infected with COVID-19? Well, there is an update to this story. Just before he has found out, he had been visiting his granny in the hospital. Of course, […]
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In a response to the letter of 50 ambassadors, who urged Poland to stop discriminating LBGT people, prime minister Morawiecki explained to the world what the truth is. And the truth is, you know, that for LGBT people Poland is a paradise, and they are respected far more than in any other countries. They can […]
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Hallelujah! The ruling coalition has been saved. Kaczyński and his two side-kicks finally signed a deal. Alas, we, the public, were not informed about what that deal is really about, but who cares. Our job is just to vote, preferably for them. And then leave politics to the grown-ups. What we do know is that […]
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The weekend was nervous. The journalists and publicist were racing in writing pieces and articles how the situation in the ruling coalition is critical, and how we are just about to see something of historical value. On Monday, media were pumping it even further, spreading rumours, and claiming that “decision will be announced just after […]
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It has been over three years since Mateusz Morawiecki celebrated the beginning of the construction of the new ferry in Szczecin. The vessel was to be launched in 2019 and to enter service this year. Was. Because, as usual with PiS promises, nothing happened of it. The keel to which Morawiecki affixed a commemorate plaque […]
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Writing about Polish politics becomes more and more boring from week to week. Because how many times you can report stories, that are almost the same as the ones that you have reported already several times? The sewage pipe under Vistula river in Warsaw broke, shit goes down with the river and PiS blames opposition […]
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I’m back from Poland. I spend about two weeks there. I decided to check for myself if the hatred against LGBT community is really as bad as the media show it. To do that I obtained an LGBT coloured VISA card and used it as my major method of payment. It was not that bad. […]