Prisoners of History by Keith Lowe review — pulling down statues isn’t the answer by Richard Preston in The Times, June 20, 2020. Here is my comment on the book and its review in The Times. I looked up the book at its publisher’s website and read a few pages about the Soviet military monument … Read more
My comment on the article Agent Gustav: Geoffrey Goodman, the Fleet Street titan who spied on Harold Wilson by Gabriel Pogrund, Martin Dixon and Tom Calver in The Sunday Times, 13 June 2020. The text includes the comment I made following the June 8, 2019 article by Jake Kerridge in The Telegraph, ‘Why should my … Read more
My comments on the article We need to talk about empire: a conversation about Britain’s history is overdue by Matthew Syed in The Sunday Times, 14 June 2020. Imperialism has many aspects and is not limited to race relations. The imperial view still permeates the world politics. The current world order is an outcome of … Read more
My two comments following the article Poland seeks to outwit Russia with canal to sea by Maria Wilczek in The Times, 6 June 2020. The building of this canal is an exercise in telling the fake narrative. Poland does not need this canal. The goal of the functionaries in control of Poland is to solidify … Read more
My comment on A Czech Dreambook by Ludvík Vaculík review: sex and surveillance in the underground resistance by Julian Evans in The Telegraph, 30 May 2020. Vaculik, himself a Communist party membert, is merely a functionary of the Communist mythology. Vaculik’s “Two Thousand Words” bears all the marks of a fake opposition pamphlet. Communists fabricated … Read more
This text is a response to another reader’s comment following The Times article Airman held hostage by the Soviets missed VE Day celebrations by Mark Bridge, 8 May 2020. 11 May 2020 The latest of the comments made by the user […] agrees with the Communist/Russian narrative. It presents a narrative which I know to be … Read more
My second comment on Niall Ferguson’s farewell article in his Sunday Times column, My crystal ball missed Brexit but got Donald Trump, 24 May 2020. The first comment, Dizzy with success, was blocked by the paper. My yesterday’s comment was blocked. Were my few critical words unbearable for this unabashedly self-promoting article in the old, … Read more
My comment following Niall Ferguson’s article in The Sunday Times, 24 May 2020, was blocked. Paraphrasing slightly Joseph V. Stalin’s article in Pravda, 2 March 1930, I would like to say that Niall Ferguson’s successes in the sphere of predicting the future are now being spoken of by everyone. Even his enemies are forced to … Read more
My two comments following James Marriott’s essay Are we vicious or virtuous when civilisation is stripped away? in The Times, 23 May 2020, devoted to Humankind, a new book by the Dutch writer Rutger Bregman. The second one is a response to another reader’s comment. Note the absence of Communism from the article. It was … Read more
My comment to the article Polish radio silences anti-government No 1 hit in The Times by Maria Wilczek, 19 May 2020. The main problem with this article is that it pushes the wrong narrative. I dare say it is a fake narrative and I have evidence and analysis that the narrative is fake. There is … Read more
My two comments on the article Cleaners are heroes. I should know: I was one by Amanda Craig in The Times, 17 May 2020. The first comment was made on May 17, the second one was added on May 29 2020. When I was fired from my university job in Poland (associate professor of Physics, … Read more
Comment following The Times article Airman held hostage by the Soviets missed VE Day celebrations by Mark Bridge, 8 May 2020. On this day 75 years ago, my father Bolesław Borkowski was imprisoned by the Soviet NKVD in the citadel in Brześć (Brest) on the river Bug. The Soviets tortured Polish prisoners. At night, those sitting … Read more
The second of my comments on The Times’ article Polish election will not be free and fair, claims European Commission by Bruno Waterfield in Brussels, April 30, 2020. Poland and other countries of evolved Communism can be described as ‘democracies’ only in the sense of ‘virtual democracy’ or ‘virtual politics’. There is a good book … Read more
The first of my comments on The Times’ article Polish election will not be free and fair, claims European Commission by Bruno Waterfield in Brussels, April 30, 2020. I would like to remind Mr. Tusk about my letter to him of 20 April 2012 and subsequent letters from my wife Małgorzata Głuchowska. Our family has … Read more
My second comment on The Times’ article Polish law under siege by ministers, warns judge by Oliver Moody, 28 April 2020. I was a PiS party member for two years betwen 2008 and 2010 and participated in several local party meetings. This was in Zielona Góra in western Poland. I have also witnessed (s)election of … Read more
The first of my comments on the article Polish law under siege by ministers, warns judge by Oliver Moody in The Times, 28 April 2020. First the quote, Since winning the 2015 election the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party has targeted the courts with measures it claims are to purge corrupt judges and relics … Read more
Comment on The Times’ article Putin and Stalin exalted beside angels in Russia’s ‘pagan temple’ by Marc Bennetts in Moscow The appearance of Stalin on the wall of an Orthodox church seems surprising at first. However, if we reflect a little, we will see that it is far from being an isolated incident. The Communist … Read more
Short comment on The inside story of how Putin and his KGB cronies took control of Russia, an article by Catherine Belton in the Sunday Times, March 29, 2020, which is based on her book Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West. Let me quote first: In the … Read more
My two short comments on the article Polish rape victims display their dignity on the catwalk by Oliver Moody in The Times, March 24, 2020. 14 April 2020 This is a typical staged event. There is really no authentic public life in Poland. Parties, associations, mass demonstrations were fake before 1990 and are fake now … Read more
Short comment on The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands review by Dominic Sandbrook, The Times, April 12, 2020. I read Philippe Sands’ East West Street. I was unpleasantly surprised that he chose to completely ignore the problem with the Soviet presence at the Nuremberg trial. … Read more