Author: Mike Doherty

Today will see the newly victorious conservative PiS government take office. Now what? Our correspondent surveys the political landscape.

It’s always fun to watch the political proverbial hit the fan and see how it plays out. Lately there’s been

History is written by the victors. They that control the past, control the present. Even if they’re not secure in

I was reflecting on the patriotic day of paddies in the aftermath of the latest carnage. This day is identifiable

I came back to town after four days with neither the Internet nor access to news of what’s been going on in the world. On their books of face, people were urging NATO, the EU, the UN etc. to stand up to Russian aggression in the Crimea. “It’s not just Crimea he’s after,” said one…

Toro was in town last week, on a four-day bender, determined to get totally smashowskied by Sunday night, so the obvious questions were ‘where’ and ‘when?’ He explained, in his own undiplomatic way, that from his experiences in Krakow, he’d become so used to being…

My favourite news story of 2013 has the be The Daily Currant’s reporting of Sarah Palin allegedly calling for an invasion of the Czech Republic on Fox News, because the chief suspects of the Boston bombings were Chechen. They did a grand job of ridiculing those who pushed…

“Every nation gets the government it deserves,” said de Maistre. We’ve now had the same one for six years, with two to go, and it’s long gone stale. PO and PiS have been the two leading parties since 2005. Back then, these opportunistic political bedfellows promised each other…

It is alarming to read of the ignorance of certain concerned citizens of our great city. Naturally, the pastime of complaining has its place, however misguided. Step forward Krakowski Alarm Smogowy (Krakow Smog Alarm), a ‘pressure group’ whose raison d’etre is to bring to the…