Poland
Poland’s Grand Panjandrum
It is hard to engage seriously with Adam Michnik’s scattered collection of essays
Communist-Free
I taught English in Poland in the 1960s and can safely say there were virtually no Communists in the country
Pole Position
This year could mark the coming of age of Poland as a musical nation. What took so long?
To One War, 55 Marks
This year’s war on expenses is nothing compared to the one started in 1939 – World War II
Katyn Denial
Residual guilt about this Soviet atrocity may be preventing Andrzej Wajda’s film Katyn from getting the coverage it deserves in Britain
From Treblinka to Tannenberg
A tour through Eastern Poland uncovers the wreckage of German military might
How I Rewrote Polish History
Poland used to be written off as a failed state. But it has survived Nazism and communism to become a model for Europe
Classic Teller of Painful Truths
The Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert, whose collected work is now available in English for the first time, crystallised the ravages of invasion and communist rule in his quest to tell the truth about pain
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?