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A senator Misiak has been kicked out of Platforma Obywatelska for what I don’t quite know. He has blotted his copybook so often and so completely it’s hard to say. For instance, while in opposition he lobbied the government on work visas for Ukrainians. He was also involved in (if he did not simply own) a company called Work Service, which recruits workers from the Ukraine to Poland. Misiak is expendable, though. The coalition partner’s chief is not so expendable and so his various nepotistic misdemeanours are being indulged by prime minister Tusk.

Sport is a subject I neglect somewhat so in an attempt to redress the balance and bring all readers up to speed on what’s going on in the wonderful world of noble sportsmanship, here’s a quote from yesterday’s Gazeta Wyborcza: “Former Polish Football Association observer and umpire ethics lecturer Wiesław K. has been arrested by Wrocław police.” The charges concern corruption in soccer. The plaintiff – a well-known and influential lecturer in ethics.