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This is both funny and sad at the same time: So at 11pm on 31 January, dismiss Johnson’s extravagant claims for what lies ahead and the faux celebrations. Light a …
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Those That Trust Trump, or Who Hearts America?
A fascinating update, courtesy of Pew Research Center, on attitudes towards the United States around the world, best summarised in this table: It’s personally interesting to note that Poland is the …
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Hurry up and die, you Tory scum
The old communists, if they didn’t like you, would simply kill you. The new woke left merely wishes you would die to make a way for a better, more caring …
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Disunited Kingdom
With both the mainstream and the social media full of jubilation or alternatively tears about the British general election results, let me sound a characteristic Daily Chrenk note of caution: …
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The Man in the High Kolkhoz
If you have Netflix (no chill necessary), there is a Polish series available, in fact the first Polish Netflix production ever, called “1983”. Yes, there is an element of play …
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Terrorist, criminal and a Pole with a whale
The story of the terrorist attack on the London Bridge, in which two people were stabbed to death and ten injured before the perpetrator was shot dead by the police …
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Extinction Rebels with all the wrong causes
No one has been gluing themselves to the streets the last few days, but it doesn’t mean that the X-men and women haven’t been in the news lately. Take Roger: …
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Poland to go nuclear
There was a real risk of that happening between 1945 and 1989 and not in a good way, but in the 21st century it’s all “atoms for peace”: After at …
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The Great Malaise continues
At PJ Media, my old friend Richard Fernandez muses about the current upheaval: Bloomberg editors have noticed that the world is on fire. There are demonstrations and unrest in Lebanon, Chile, …
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Revolution 2.0
Under the original Marxism, inspired by the bearded bum himself, socialist revolution would happen when the working class rose up and overthrew the bourgeoisie. Because Marx has also foreseen that …
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The left – always getting the walls wrong
Yesterday we remembered the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Everyone, including The Daily Chrenk, has been excited about it, and now Italy’s Democratic Party is joining …
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Where were you when the walls came crashing down
It was a Thursday. I couldn’t remember but just checked it, thanks to the magic of the Internet – something that certainly did not exist in its current omnipresent form …
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Shout out to Krakow the number 1
A small survey, but it shows a consistent result: Members of leading British consumer association Which? have chosen Kraków as Europe’s best city break destination for the third year in …
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Which witch is which?
An interesting Halloween-inspired graphic from “The Economist”* that sheds a lot of light on the history of European witch hunts: The key take-aways in my book: 1) Contrary to the …
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Closing the gap
Because women can do anything: Europol has revealed the names of Europe’s most-wanted fugitives – and 18 of the 21 criminals on the list are women, warning they are “equally …
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Denying the sky is blue because Orange Man Bad
Blind hatred makes people irrational. When you suffer from the Trump Derangement Syndrome, you are likely to take the opposite view to the President on pretty much every issue, because …
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PiS pisses off progs as Poles go to the polls
The 12 things to note about Sunday’s parliamentary election in Poland: 1. It’s status quo, with the populist/nationalist/conservative PiS (Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc, or Law and Justice) government getting reelected. 2. …
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European values for thee but not for mee
And now for some light amusement amidst this week of controversy and crisis, let’s cross live to the European Union, where an important battle is taking place over what’s in a …
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When Greta goes to Guangzhou
The climate change activism, and in particular, its more hysterical Extinction Rebellion/School Strike “we’re all going to die” variety, are very much a Western phenomenon, despite the issue of climate …
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The misogyny of climate change denial
The obverse of the intersectionality of victimhood is the intersectionality of perpetration: In case it wasn't clear from the type of harassment that climate leaders like Greta Thunberg & Alexandria …
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