Two comments on the article What sluggish Britain can learn from Poland by Emma Duncan in The Times, 30 July 2021. Comment #1 The author is trying to push fairy tales, having no knowledge and experience of the educational system in Poland. “The children of middle-class people in our town go to technical schools,” says … Read more
My comment on the article Duda vs Trzaskowski: Poland heads to polls in close-run presidential election by Maria Wilczek in The Sunday Times, July 12 2020. Typical false story. Both candidates come from the same background, the same group. The readers are fed fake stories about Poland. There is no real difference between the candidates. … 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
Hugh Tomlinson writes in The Times, February 21 2020, about cheating in Indian schools in the article Testing times for India’s school exam cheats. My comment is about falsifications at a university in Poland. In Poland, where I was employed at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, everything, not just exam results is subject to … Read more
My comment following the review of tv documentary Belsen: Our Story, review: a devastating and dignified oral history of Holocaust horrors, by Michael Hogan, The Telegraph, January 28, 2020 —— Lech Borkowski 28 Jan 2020 11:33PM Great documentary. I made the following note in 2014: “The last century, beginning with World War I, has seen … Read more
My comment on the article in the The Times We can never be sure we’d be the good guys by David Aaronovitch, January 1 2020. Lech Borkowski 2 January 2020 Many of the comments following the article indicate an under-appreciation of the evolution of evil. Evil is alive and in rude health. Here is my … Read more
My third comment following the article Benefits boom pushes Polish populists to victory by Oliver Moody in The Times, 14 October 2019. This is a response to those uncritically accepting the well-known widely publicized narrative. To present a narrative, especially one contrary to the widely publicized one, it does take a little longer to experience, analyze … Read more
My comment on the article Conservative conference: Human rights offenders may be barred from UK in The Times, 30 September 2019. You should also add Gluchowska Act, declaring as persona non grata all top Polish officials, including Donald Tusk, current President of the European Council, who approved of severe human rights violations against our family: … Read more
Comment to Gyorgy Konrad’s obituary in The Telegraph. The comment was submitted in the morning of 18 September 2019 to the digital edition of the paper but was blocked. Adam Michnik is a son of a Soviet agent convicted for his activities against the Polish state in the 1930s. His mother was a Communist as … Read more
Another comment I wrote under the same article in the Telegraph as mentioned in my previous blog post. “Lech Borkowski 20 Aug 2019 1:21PM After many years of bullying and all kinds of harassment of our family, my wife and I were expelled from our state jobs for political reasons in 2015. I worked as … Read more
The Sunday Times (London), 25 August 2019, published an article about bullying: Fresh complaints over ‘toxic’ workplace culture at Edinburgh University vet school This is a follow-up on an article published earlier this month Edinburgh University vet school ‘run like the Stasi’, in which Andrew Brown, a senior lecturer, was quoted to have written in … Read more