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 […]
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For a few days Polish internet had been flooded with fake screen grabs from TVP’s flagship information program “Wiadomości”. This was yet another instance of PiS learning in a hard way about the power of internet and how “Streisand effect” works. See, public television in Poland have always been politicized, and accusation of it being […]
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Those few weeks I was unable to write due to sickness, a lot had happened in Poland. The last battle for the justice system is going on, and it has been covered well by international media. If you are getting confused and trying to make ends of it, allow me that simplified explanation: PiS have […]
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Finally, Poland is getting some recognition. And not just Poland, but the Polish independent journalism! Mocked in his own country, ignored by mainstream media, Marcin Rola (whom Britske Listy readers might remember from this for example) suddenly became a star of a BBC. And in the prime time! The Newsnight program investigated how Polish radical […]