Right-Wing Strikes Back
Eating Pie? PiS head Jarosław Kaczyński has announced that the European Parliament will bear witness to a revolutionary change following the upcoming European elections. During a meeting of the...
View ArticleVictims of Their Own Making
The Victim Complex For a number of years now there has been a growing trend within right-wing Polish politics which is particularly perplexing. Right-wing politics is often equated with patriotic and...
View ArticleKatyń Returns to Haunt Poland
Lech & Maria Kaczyńska R.I.P. Poland’s list of tragedies keeps on growing. The 10th April will live long in the memory of Poles around the world. On this day, 70 years ago, the cream of Poland’s...
View ArticleWas Kaczyński A Hero?
Royal Wawel - Place of Kings The tragic death of President Lech Kaczyński and the 95 other passengers of flight 101 in Smolensk has opened up a veritable Pandora’s box of constitutional, political and...
View ArticlePiece of Plane Becomes Holy Relic
Holy Piece of Tupolev Tu-154 If anyone had previously believed Poland was a secular state there is no doubt now that the opposite is true following the tragic Smolensk air crash. In some ways it was...
View ArticlePoland Still Divided
2010 Elections | (c) Krynicki The first round of the Polish presidential elections are behind us. Civic Platform (PO) candidate Bronisław Komorowski manages 41% while Law and Justice (PiS) candidate...
View ArticleThe Rydzykisation of Poland?
Rydzyk - the Good Father Jan Wróbel in a recent article in Wirtualna Polska talks about the ‘rydzykisation’ (pol. rydzykizacja) of not only Poland but surprisingly also of Civic Platform (PO). He is,...
View ArticlePoland Has a Cross to Bear
Shit Hits the Plaque Things have really reached boiling point and one could colloquially add that the shit really has hit the fan in Poland. A ‘faecal’ assailant soiled the plaque commemorating the...
View ArticleDeath of Solidarity
Spotlight on Poland Nobody could have envisaged that the thirtieth anniversary of the birth of Solidarność (in August 1980) would turn into a farce and sound the death knell for Poland’s first trade...
View ArticleHas Kaczyński Finally Lost It?
Has Grief Twisted Him? After losing his twin brother Lech in the Smolensk air crash, Jarosław Kaczyński appears to be on a political suicide mission. His one goal in life seems to be avenging his...
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