Happy 100th birthday Poland
My grandmother Irena passed away a few weeks ago, having recently, without much fanfare, turned 100. She was my grandfather’s second wife, after my mother’s mother passed away when my …
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This was my Poland
Make sure to check out this stunning collection of photographs: In the early 1980s, while Gdansk and Warsaw were in the midst of a sociopolitical upheaval of great impact on …
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Dear Resistance, listen to my lived totalitarian experience – you have no effing idea what you’re talking about
In a world that the identity politics has wrought, lived experience is a trump (apologies for the use of a triggering word) card: your viewpoint or opinion on an issue …
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The end of The End Of History
Francis Fukuyama got famous, at least in the nerdy political circles, almost thirty years ago when he wrote an article for the neo-con magazine “The National Interest”, which he expanded …
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Generals of the damned
Over the past few days two public figures have received flak for acknowledging the military talents of historically incorrect generals. The first case was a typical fake news beat-up, the …
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As a 1/512,000th Mongol, I sympathise with Elizabeth Warren
People have been telling stories and myths about their ancestors from the time immemorial; in fact the importance of knowing where you come from has been a universal attribute of …
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Children of the Revolution
Number one most-read article in “The Atlantic” monthly at the moment is a very interesting piece by Yascha Mounk, lecturer on government at Harvard, titled “Americans Strongly Dislike PC Culture”, …
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Unhappy Columbus Day
In a world where quoting Winston Churchill now gets you socially mobbed and forced into a grovelling apology (if you’re wondering what I’m referring to:) Did not mean to offend …
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Literal Hitler about Trump Hitler: I don’t like him
Just because 2018 can’t get any surreal, German tabloid “Bild” has tracked down Adolf Hitler’s relative to ask him, among other things, about Donald Trump: Relatives of notorious Nazi leader …
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Second Civil War or Same Old Same Old?
Type in “Second Civil War” into Google and you will instantly get nearly half a billion results. National Review, Townhall, Slate, New Yorker have all speculated about it recently. Thirty-one …
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Happy 70,000,058th birthday, the Flintstones!
On September 30, 1960, at 8:30 PM, ABC network aired the first episode of Hanna-Barbera-produced “The Flintstones”. The late broadcast hour was a recognition that initially “The Flintstones” were made …
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Congratulations Poland, you’ve made it!
It’s been a rather rough three centuries for this formerly largest and one of the most powerful countries in Europe. During its golden age, Poland – or the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth …
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The Polish Enigma
Dermot Turing, the nephew of the famous code breaker and one of the fathers of the computer, Alan (“The Imitation Game”, pretty good movie) writes about a very little known …
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The passing world of 1 September
Today is the 79th anniversary of the start of the Second World War, and as I was pondering on that date, I realised that with one exception, there is no …
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7 reasons why Australia is a better friend to the US than Canada
Earlier today Donald Trump sent a congratulatory tweet to Australia’s new Prime Minister Scott Morrison: Congratulations to new Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. There are no greater friends than the …
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Crisis of masculinity, now in its 150,489th year
“The Guardian” publishes something called The Week in Patriarchy, “a weekly roundup of what’s happening in the world of feminism and sexism” complied in the current week by Arwa Mahdawi. The …
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Ramsey Bolton becomes a Polish pilot
For the sake of the movie I hope that Iwan Rheon who played the arch-bastard (literally and metaphorically) Ramsey Bolton in “Game of Thrones” is good enough actor to go …
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Satan skips Victoria, goes to Arkansas
A little coastal town in Victoria manages to escape with all its residents and guests unharmed: A festival in a small coastal town in Victoria sparked rumours that a bizarre …
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Serfing holidays
Would you rather be a medieval European peasant or a modern American worker? Well, it depends on how much you value your free time: Life for the medieval peasant was …
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When ICE came for Anne Frank
The denigration of the memory of the Holocaust continues, courtesy of people who either don’t know history and are therefore stupid or purposefully misinterpret it and are therefore malicious: A …
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