The 2020 might be the year of change in Poland. Not only priests are being molested now (a local priest from Warsaw demands that his neighbours change their WiFi network name from Lucifer to something acceptable for a Christian neighbourhood – apparently he never heard about Saint Lucifer of Cagliari), but, to a surprise of […]
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It seems that years of forcing the church down the throats of Poles finally brings some results. In a recent poll, a priest turned out to be one of the least respected professions of over 31 vocations the respondents were asked about. Lower than priests are only politicians and stock brokers. And no wonder, as […]
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It seems that after last elections, the characters and issues from first chapters of this series are coming back. It’s a true blast from the past. For example, it just emerged, that Edmund Janniger, one of the Antoni Macierewicz’ adolescent “advisors” is still assisting his former principal. Sure, Antoni Macierewicz today is just a regular […]
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Finally, Poland has a worthy response to Jára Cimrman. Our Polish super hero is called Mateusz Morawiecki and was also participating in pretty much everything. Morawiecki is known for that with whomever he speaks, he is always telling the stories from his past to match. So if he speaks with farmers, he is telling them […]
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Last week was unusually quiet in Polish politics. Probably because all the parties are planning how to begin the new term of the parliament. The only decision to be made was for the president to officially appoint Senior Speakers of both chambers of the parliament. In Poland, the Senior Speaker is mostly a honourable position: […]
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“It’s Sunday morning. The autumn sun shines between the trees, and I still have pain in my heart and my words of apology go to those, who are not with us. This pain cannot be removed, I have to suffer”. Those are just a few words from the festival of hypocrisy that is going on […]
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The results of the election hardly surprised anyone. The biggest opposition coalition, led by Platforma Obywatelska, failed to take PiS head on. Results of other opposition groups – the Left, PSL and Kukiz and extremely right wing Konfederacja – proved what was known by most, apart from the Platforma Obywatelska leaders, for many years now: […]
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In the last chapter, I wrote about PiS’ preparations for the oncoming elections. Today, as promised, I would like to look closer at what the opposition has to offer. It is not easy to run campaign against PiS, that has at its disposal not only the public TV and Radio, that were turned into PiS […]
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Imagine walking along the street and witnessing a tow truck dumping a scrap car on some public car park. You would probably think that suddenly time started to run backwards, as the tow companies are supposed to remove abandoned cars from the streets, not dumping them there. But fear not, nothing is wrong with our […]
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– Did you hear that Czechs appointed the new minister of fishing and maritime industry? – What? Why? They are a landlocked country, they don’t have access to the sea! – Well, Poland has the Ministry of Justice and nobody seems for that to be any problem… This is a joke that I saw a […]