I always loved winter driving. When I lived in Poland, I was taking every opportunity to drive out of the town, or to have some winter fun on the empty supermarket car park. But since I live in the UK, I do it less and less often. And it’s not even because there is rarely […]
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Click here to see previous part of the series Click here to see all chapters of the series so far When I submitted my last week‘s piece I was met with editor’s reaction “the government has been reshuffled, it’s important, you cannot omit that from your piece!”. I was of a different opinion: I […]
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Click here to see previous part of the series Click here to see all chapters of the series so far Christmas in Poland went rather peacefully. Not much was going on in Politics. Although the legend, that animals and pets speak in human voice on Christmas Eve proved to be just a fairy tale, the […]
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Click here to see previous part of the series Click here to see all chapters of the series so far Recently popular joke in Poland goes like that: a guy gets into the taxi and shouts at the driver “to Kaczyński, quick!”. The driver looks back and asks “but where exactly? Kaczyński street? Kaczyński square? […]
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Click here to see previous part of the series Click here to see all chapters of the series so far Apparently “Atlas of Cats” (see here) was not enough to cover the fact, that PiS is on the last stretch in their race to finally take over Polish courts. They feel a bit relaxed and […]
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Click here to see previous part of the series Click here to see all chapters of the series so far Delusions of Polish Right wing can be present everywhere. The XIX-century notion of Poles being the chosen ones, the Christ of the nation, who’s role is to bring the light to other countries is omnipresent. […]
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Click here to see previous part of the series Click here to see all chapters of the series so far I would like to start this week’s column by giving you a peek into the process of writing them. Every day I trawl Polish news for some absurd happenings and dig through all of the […]
Meanwhile in Cuckooland 47
Click here to see previous part of the series Click here to see all chapters of the series so far Apparently we have to start from clarifications again. In the last episode of this series I mentioned that one of the women that protested against fascism was arrested and during that arrest the police officer […]
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Click here to see previous part of the series Click here to see all chapters of the series so far Finally: the ultimate proof that Darwin’s theory of evolution is fake is here! Marian Kowalski, one of the leaders of Polish extreme right and former presidential candidate explained during meeting with Polish diaspora in Kanada, […]
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Click here to see previous part of the series Click here to see all chapters of the series so far Finally, Poland decided to give shelter to the victim of religious persecution… Yes, yes, I can see some regular readers of this column murmuring to themselves “oh, not that old chestnut again, he could make […]