From Israel to Poland, the folaut continues
The Israel Folau case is big because Israel Folau is big – literally, but more importantly metaphorically speaking. Folau, however, is just a tip of an iceberg if that analogy …
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Who’s Who at the EU Zoo
So the people of the European Union have voted – the 51 per cent of them, at least, which is a considerable reverse on the long term trend of a …
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Monte Cassino, great-grandfather and a bear
On May 18, the day Australia goes to the polls, on the other side of the world we will be commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of the bloodiest …
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My economic revelation
Unlike some people, I’ve never had a religious experience, that moment of staggering clarity when one seems to connect with a higher power or become as one with the universe. …
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Anzac Day Repost: Grandfather’s Bridge
Note: I have originally published this long post two and a half ago, and since then it has become one of my and my readers’ favourite TDC stories. I have reposted …
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Was Polish American revolutionary hero a heroine?
Pulaski Day, when the Polish-American community celebrates their Polish-Americaness annually and named after a Polish general who had died at Savannah in 1779, might have to be soon renamed Pulaska …
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Polish Ripper
They always find ways to blame the migrant: Jack the Ripper who stalked London more than 130 years ago was a demon barber with a taste for human flesh, according …
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Chrenk Youth
As the Millennials the world over seem to be going ga-ga for socialism, there is one country that’s bucking the trend: In Poland, the young generation’s shift to the right …
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Italians betray Germany for the third time
May or may not be a good idea, but Italy invoking the term “axis” in regards to any diplomatic arrangement should arguably be avoided: The most powerful politician in Italy …
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The Daily Chrenk’s Best Proverbs From Around The World, Part 3
Dedicated to my uncle Stanislaw from Lodz, Poland, who is the biggest fan of the series so far. Nevertheless, I hope that all of you will find something insightful and …
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Three Decades Down Under
Thirty years an Aussie. I’m celebrating today, not sure if Australia is. Does that now, in my advanced age, make me two thirds Australian and one third Polish? So twice …
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The nun who saved a Jewish hero
Last week, a 110-year old Dominican nun, Sister Cecilia Roszak, passed away in my home town of Krakow, in the same convent she first walked into almost 90 years before. …
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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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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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Screw Brutalism
“The New York Times” asks the questions no one needs to ask, much less answer: The short answer is “No”, or at least it should be the answer. There is …
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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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