As anyone who has been following the situation in Poland over the last year knows, the government has centralised control over media (now the head of state media is appointed by the minister of culture), the constitutional court (well, they basically castrated it), the prosecutors (the minister of justice was […]
Vad är det som gör folk så arga på PiS? Är vi helt enkelt bara dåliga förlorare? Eller ligger det något annat, djupare bakom? Det var en lång twitter-tråd (läs hela!) av Ben Stanley som hjälpte mig att sätta tummen på det som gnagt länge: This is a classic example […]
Every year when EF, a company specialising in private English instruction, publishes its “English Proficiency Index” we get a host of press reports enthusing about how high Poland (or Sweden) is ranked. This year, Poland is on tenth place in the world, and Sweden on third. But is it true? […]
The results of the latest yearly bicycling measurements (Warszawski Pomiar Ruchu Rowerowego 2016) were just presented. During several days in the beginning of June the number of bicyclists passing by some 50-odd places in Warsaw were counted and catalogued. Since this is a set of measurements that have been repeated […]
Our local cemetary on All saints evening 2009. In Poland they like putting out grave lights on All saints. It makes for nice pictures. This year it was raining the whole evening, so I post this photo from a few years back instead.
A few days ago a friend asked me to take some pictures of her garden. It’s a typical, if unusually well-kept Polish działka; a small garden where families in the town and cities are supposed to relax, socialise, grow fruits and veggies. In Warsaw, large areas are cordoned off as […]
En sak man hör mycket från PiS-anhängare så fort man klagar på hanteringen av konstitutionsdomstolen (TK), de nya medielagarna eller liknande är att PO gjorde likadant, och det man nu gör är bara att reparera landet igen. (Eller att läka det, som utrikesministern uttryckte det.) Det är typisk whataboutism. Låt oss […]
För andra veckan i rad organiserade “Kommittén för demokratins försvar” (Komitet Obrony Demokracji, KOD) demonstration för att protestera mot hur den nya PiS-regeringen försöker att undergräva konstitutionsdomstolens (TKs) makt. Förra veckan samlades kanske 50000 personer utanför TK i Warszawa (reportage av SRs Thella Jonsson här), och idag var vi upp […]
I panelen i förra veckans Godmorgon, världen! talade Per Wirtén om hur rädd han var att om Sverigedemokraterna skulle bli största parti så skulle de aldrig lämna tillbaka makten. Well, om han vill kan han ju titta söderut. Här fick Polens SD, Lag och rättvisa (PiS), 37% av rösterna och […]
All saints’ day in Poland means millions of people visiting the cemeteries, adorning the graves with flowers and grave lights. The picture above was taken leaving the shutter open as I was walking past the local cemetery. A picture of graves at night. Note the grave in the centre. It’s […]
