So, another week passes and impasse supposedly reigns in the political sphere in Italy. Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled, in accordance with electoral procedure, on the official results of the Election. It came as no surprise to anyone (not even Berluska) that, after a week of examining contested ballot papers, the result of the election […]
This month’s issue of Lampa (Lamp) has a few features on Stanisław Lem, who passed away recently. Radek Knapp writes in one of them “One day I told the Master that I had written a story, to which Lem replied: ‘don’t write. You’ll starve to death’.” It’s a tough old profession alright but not for […]
April 14th – Gazeta Wyborcza drops its cover price to 1.50. April 15th – Gazeta Wyborcza publishes an article by Adam Krzemi?ski of Polityka about Das Bild (publisher Axel Springer Verlag) entitled “Tabloid with Blood on its Hands”. April 18th – A new newspaper, Dziennik, appears in Polish shops. Price: 1.50. Publisher: Axel Springer Verlag.
You have to hand it to Gazeta Wyborcza ‘s pictures editor. Wojciech Olku?nik’s photographs in today’s paper of Andrzej Lepper as he slides his way into the job of deputy prime minister do much more to convey the newspaper’s disgust than the tedious and tendentious comment articles accompanying the news that Lepper’s Samoobrona party has […]
The View from Bologna (Romano Prodi’s home town) has been quiet this week, in the wake of the Italian general elections. Quiet for a good reason – the official verdict is still out as to who has actually won the election. Last night, Prodi took to the stage in a packed Piazza Maggiore, here in […]
Being stuck in a bus behind a button import company van last weekend proved a by-no-means-rare-enough opportunity to subject myself to the horror that is commercial Polish radio. (“I don’t mind the formatting,” a friend of mine once said, “but must they all have the same format?”) All Polish women in advertising went to the […]
I am proud and happy to report that I fell for all five April Fool’s jokes in the last Nie bar one. That Jarosław Kaczynski paid a state visit to the US instead of his (identical twin) brother and president of Poland, Lech? Sure, why not? That Minister Wasserman wanted to drain a lake in […]
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, addressing a group of business leaders on Tuesday, gathered together all of his formidable marketing skills to find a slogan to gather voters to his cause: “I’ve too much respect for the intelligence of the Italians to believe that there could be many coglioni about who would vote against their own interests”[1].
The so-called 'relegation battle', that joyous struggle for survival which permeates the entirety of Premiership coverage in the month of May (as X, Y or Z have already won the title and have begun showboating in earnest by that stage), can take on many different guises. At the core of this principle are the Shylock […]