Meanwhile in Cuckooland 121

And so, with the virus spreading, most of Poles stay at home. The internet is full of pictures of empty cities. Luckily, there is plenty of streaming services to choose from, including katoflix.pl, the Polish answer to Netflix that streams only Catholic materials. But pandemia is pandemia, #stayathome is #stayathome, but the political show must […]

Food for thought for my British friends

Tomorrow’s Yorkshire Post cartoon. Magnifico @GraemeBandeira pic.twitter.com/Q6SVWRlpj1 — Jack Blanchard (@Jack_Blanchard_) March 13, 2020 I saw this cartoon on Twitter. It depicts an NHS worker holding the whole coronavirus planet on her shoulder. I thought to myself “well, just another case of British megalomania, what else is new” and carried as usual. But today I have […]

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: Meanwhile in Cuckooland 119

So President Duda did it. He signed the controversial bill providing extra funding for the PiS propaganda in TVP. Yeah, for propaganda.  OK, TVP offers also many valuable programs, but its financial situation is actually not that bad: it’s true that many people fail to pay their TV license fees, but, unlike for example BBC, […]