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Political & cultural history & memory, national identity. Lots on sport, food & travel. Some disability stuff. Polish/Polski speaker. Views my own.
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I really do wish government departments, especially those revolving around health would stop referring to people as 'customers' & 'service users'.

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And so it begins. PiS was never going to give the government a chance to work constructively with the new President. This sounds a lot like setting a precedent of government & President needing to be from the same party.

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Despite Nawrocki's criticism of some things PiS did in power & his more hard-right position on certain issues, I can't get past the idea he was chosen as a yes man to block the Tusk government & bring about early parliamentary elections.

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🇵🇱⚖️🗳️ The rule of law repair process in Poland just got incredibly more difficult. I expect President Nawrocki to be even less cooperative than Duda, as Nawrocki will work hard for a PiS parliamentary election victory. Tough times ahead. 1/

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Sigh. Part of me feels like the main point of Nawrocki's candidacy has always been to grind the government to a halt. He has so little political experience & strikes me as a yes man for PiS His views are to the right of Duda & he seems to have been carried by the far right & antiestablishment votes

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Don't you even dare cursed ratio.

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I think we're done here. (But still hoping votes from the Polish diaspora make a difference). #WyboryPrezydenckie2025 #WyboryPrezydenckie

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More good news coming out of Russia today. ##WyboryPrezydenckie ##WyboryPrezydenckie2025

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It's always worth remembering with the late poll that the actual results it includes within its projections are from the smallest polling stations, & therefore more likely to be in more conservative rural areas.

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#LatePoll

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Big win for Rafał Trzaskowski among Poles voting on ships. ##WyboryPrezydenckie2025 ##WyboryPrezydenckie

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Which is an interesting position to take when there is a 0.6% difference in the exit poll and you might end up the winner instead. I wonder how long those claims will last if Nawrocki nudges ahead.

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What's particularly fascinating here (for me) is how close most of these criteria are. There's no great difference between genders or age groups, it's only education where you see a real difference.

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No sleep tonight until we know it's true...

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This is awesome. I need to see it. To mark the 50th anniversary of Andrzej Wajda's masterful film adaptation of Władysław Reymont's 'The Promised Land', the city of Łódź (where it's set) has unveiled a new mural. It was created by artist Maciej Bielewicz & can be found at 120 Piotrowska Street.

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For reference notesfrompoland.com/2021/02/28/f...

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This guy looks friendly walking around my local town centre right now 😐

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A win for Świątek means a win for Trzaskowski? I'm about as confident of the latter as I was about Iga after the first set.

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Well at least someone’s trying to end the Ukraine war in a day

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Happy #InternationalChildrensDay. To celebrate, my now annual tradition of marking it with the absolute master of children's portraiture, the late, great Stanisław Wyspiański. On Thursday there's a chance to find out even more about Wyspiański, with a talk at the British Library

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So that Champions League final is not free to air anywhere not even on You Tube thanks to wretched TNT the same despicable TNT that charge us in UK £31 a month to watch the French Open, rats 🤬 #ChampionsLeagueFinal #PSGInter #RolandGarros #FrenchOpen

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Personally, I think there should be a far bigger outcry over TNT's vice-like grip over sport broadcasting in the UK. Seems pretty obscene to me. Thank God I've got Polish TV at home.

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“Contrary to what you would expect, I do not want a simple house. I want a complex house, because the house will define my world.” -lovely piece about designing homes for disability in this weekend's @ftweekend.com:

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PSG are trying to be the 24th club to win the European Cup. Founded in 1970, they would be the only winners founded after the tournament (1955). Though Steaua Bucharest/București (founded 1947, champions 1986) & Crvena Zvezda/Red Star Belgrade (founded 1945, European Cup aged 46 in 1991)

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