“Now or never” – says the cover of the pro-PiS magazine “Sieci” featuring Patryk Jaki. Apparently will be never, as it is definitely not now, as Jaki lost in Warsaw (according to forecasts and exit polls, Rafał Trzaskowski of PO became mayor of Warsaw in the first round). But to be frank, the misfortune of […]
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Good news everyone! If everything goes well, we will soon have yet another holiday in Poland. The National Day for Commemoration of Steadfast Clergyman have been approved by the lower chamber of the parliament and send up to Senate. It will be a day to celebrate all those priests who fought for freedom of Poland, and rightly […]
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Remember those recordings, that helped PiS to win the elections? The whole electoral campaign in 2015 was circulating about who said what on the illegal tapes, secretly recorded by the people, who are now to be known to have ties with Russia. As we wrote in Britske Listy back in 2014, the whole thing was just […]
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What should you do, if you needed money to support your election campaign? Well, apparently, if you are from PiS, you could use the fact that some of your people work for Polish Red Cross, and make a side-business, selling donated second hand clothing and pocketing the money. This scandal has been a public secret […]
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Last week people of Cuckooland were talking about a few major events. The first of it was Andrzej Duda visiting Donald Trump in the White House. PiS probably expected it to be a major PR success – after all, the opposition was pointing out that US President doesn’t want to treat Poland seriously after PiS […]
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Poland never had any real colonies. Not in the Western understanding at least, as all we had was just a couple of small trading outpost, that we managed to hold on to for a few years (one in today’s Gambia, one in today’s Trinidad and Tobago). The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during its golden age was too […]
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The funny slogan “Let’s save Sweden for Swedes” popularised by Polish migrants in Sweden, who were encouraging other Poles to vote for radical anti-immigrant right, was not enough for them to follow the footsteps of their forefathers. Polish army under the king Jan III Sobieski by going in succour to Austrians saved Viena from Ottoman […]
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Summer is usually a lazy time in politics. It was quite lazy for me as well, as I ditched everything and went for a road trip across Europe – from Scotland, through England, Benelux and French Alps to Tuscany and San Marino. I expected people to ask me questions about Brexit – after all, I […]
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If anyone doubts that education and knowledge matters, the situation in the Polish battle for the independence of the courts proves it yet again. While PiS was already triumphant, trying to mock high judges that were forced to retire, the Highest Court has outsmarted them and fired a set of questions regarding new PiS laws […]
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It’s official. Poland is no longer a country with rule of law any more. EU top court ruled, that Ireland might be right to refuse extradition of a Polish criminal, as due to PiS judiciary reforms, he might have his rights to fair trial compromised. And we can already see that he would not be […]