My second comment on the article Polish president looks for US troops to give him edge in election by Oliver Moody and Maria Wilczek in The Times, 26 June 2020. In Poland, there is a democratic spectacle, but there is no democracy. There was no democracy since WWII. The title of the article claims that … Read more
My comment on the article Polish right is dismantling democracy, Lech Walesa warns by Oliver Moody and Maria Wilczek in The Times, 26 June 2020. This is an empty spectacle presented as the ‘real thing’. There is no political difference and no difference of interest between the people mentioned in the article, just like there … Read more
My comment on the article Polish president looks for US troops to give him edge in election by Oliver Moody in The Times, 25 June 2020. There is a misunderstanding about the changes of 1989-90. It was not, as it is usually presented, a ‘transition to democracy’. The ruling Communists maintained the same firm grip … Read more
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
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 on the article Nigeria copies and pastes new laws from Singapore by Jane Flanagan in The Times, 18 May 2020. When I read State of the Union address to the EU Parliament, 11 September 2013, by Manuel Barroso, I thought quite a few phrases in the document looked familiar. I compared it with … 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
My comment on The Times’ article Kremlin drops plans for state-approved Wikipedia by Marc Bennetts, May 15, 2020. The text was blocked and did not appear among readers’ comments. Lech Borkowski Russia’s decision to abandon the official state-run equivalent of wikipedia does not make much difference. Wikipedia in Eastern Europe is controlled by the same … Read more
Comment on The Times article We led the war effort, say British — others disagree by Lucy Fisher, May 8, 2020 The poll is asking the wrong questions. The UK and the US allied with one of the two genocidal regimes in Europe against the other one. Collectively, they succeeded in defeating one enemy, while … 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