Yes, it’s good to be back in Poland, where pedestrians are inexorably being pushed off the streets by people handing out leaflets (schools, loans) to pedestrians.
Turning, inevitably, to the papers, I find one intriguing story amongst the usual mire of vituperation and sleaze. Ludwik Dorn, deputy prime minister and minister for the interior, flew into a snot and walked out of a TV programme when at the last minute it turned out that he would be appearing with one Roman Giertych. Dorn criticised the journalist harshly, saying she was not fit to run the show, and threatened that his party would boycott the programme. According to one of the tabloids he even demanded her resignation.
Those of you fortunate enough to be unfamiliar with Polish politics may be wondering who this Roman Giertych is that excites such emotional responses from Minister Dorn. Allow me: Giertych is the minister for education in the same government which Dorn also serves. He is a coalition “partner.” Doubtless Dorn regularly storms out of cabinet meetings, accusing the prime minister of being unfit to run the show, when Giertych turns up unannounced.