Bishop Stanisław Stefanuk described the use of strikes by teachers and doctors as a terrorist method in his sermon on June 7th (Corpus Christi). He must read Fakt
Further to our last post, the documentary on Sex Crimes and the Vatican was shown on RAI due’s Anno Zero programme – albeit a week late, after the programme’s presenter took the opportunity to double check the documentary’s accuracy in the face of heavy criticism from the Vatican and various politicians. Despite the heavy insinuations, […]
As chancellor it was his [Thomas More’s] duty to enforce the laws against heretics […] As he himself wrote in his “Apologia” (cap. 49) it was the vices of heretics that he hated, not their persons; and he never proceeded to extremities until he had made every effort to get those brought before him to […]
Not a very good title, really, since according to the Guardian, the trial was held behind closed doors but there are similarities with the “confession” (the Guardian’s inverted commas) of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the show trials of Stalinist Russia. The man, after more than three years under arrest quietly contemplating the error of his […]
“On the surface, the Russian motives seemed most noble: they intended to introduce law and order, found schools and put an end to ancestral blood feuds and to robbery. It’s just that they wanted to do good by force and make the wild mountain tribes happy by first forcing them into submission.” Too bad GW […]
When writing my last post, about Luciano Moggi, I had yet to come across the news that Moggi has been invited to address students at a technical institute in Agropoli, a city in the Southern region of Campania. The theme for the day – Sport’s Education. Afterwards he will inaugurate a Luciano Moggi Juventus fan […]
Gazeta Wyborcza has launched a series called “fifteen themes” of the third (i.e. post 1989) Republic of Poland. Part one deals with censorship. There is a photo of a page from the GW of July 10th 1989 in which two cuts have been forced by the censor. In place of the censored information is [—-], […]
On October 23rd the BBC news website reported that Sony was delaying the release of a new product in Europe until 2007, even though it is already on sale in Asia. The reason given was that the machines did not meet European safety standards. Today a second reason is given: “stock shortages of vital components.” […]
The EU and the US have come to a new agreement on the “sharing” of passenger information on transatlantic flights (or the west-bound ones anyway). The negotiations were carried on under some duress – err, with a degree of urgency – because the previous agreement on spying on (among other things) the meal preferences of […]
It appears I have been going too easy on Gazeta Wyborcza. Here’s Tony Judt on Adam Michnik, its editor: “Today, America�s liberal armchair warriors are the �useful idiots� of the War on Terror. In fairness, America�s bellicose intellectuals are not alone. In Europe, Adam Michnik, the hero of the Polish intellectual resistance to Communism, has […]
