No one in their right mind would be interested in the squalid personnel-changes that pass for politics in Poland but the elevation of Zyta Gilowska to minister of finance and deputy prime minister ill
We kick off the new year some kilos heavier after a December spent sampling the culinary delights that make Italy such a good place to live. This may account for the scarcity of entries during the fin
“They queue at the check-in desks in near silence, the weather-beaten, mountainy men in their cleanest dirty clothes with the tell-tale spatters of plaster; the sprinkling of women of a certain age,
Over the Christmas break I succeeded in getting through Tony Judt�s monumental (878 pages) Postwar, which, incidentally, was chosen by the editors of the New York Times as one of the ten best books
The Christmas edition of Polish current affairs magazine Polityka contains a fairly typical look back on the year in photographs. Internationally, the year is sombre to say the least: New Orleans, the
Given the Economist’s somewhat erratic policy of making material available for free online, it was a pleasant surprise to see that numerous pieces from its end-of-year double issue are easily ac
The annual book-of-the-year lists (see here for an exhaustiveexhausting selection) is always an opportunity for those asked to nominate to showcase their taste, erudition, and, in some cases, their la
Some of you decadent westerners, festering as you are in your godless moral decay, may have been labouring under the misapprehension that Our Lord Jesus Christ the Almighty Saviour was born into a hum
I have been so busy pontificating recently on political issues, that I neglected to mention, as I had hoped, that I caught the supposed “event picture” of the holidays, King Kong, over the
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