The death of Ryszard Kapuściński on 23 January 2007 in Warsaw shocked friends, colleagues and readers all over the world. He was 74, but somehow we had all assumed that
Last autumn in Poland, I went to visit the graves of two friends near Kraków. They lay side by side in the little cemetery of the Benedictine monastery at Tyniec.
During the communist era, many Polish priests collaborated with the communist authorities and informed on ordinary Catholics - a fact that is being conveniently forgotten.
In world-cup England, where the red-on-white flag of St George flaps from every window, car and pub railing, a little wind of Scotophobia has sprung up. The Scots, generally tolerated
There was once a Religion of Progress. Can there be a Religion of Regress? I can't find another word to describe this strange sensation of sliding backwards which
"This instrument [television] can teach, can illuminate and can inspire. But it can only do so to the extent that human beings are determined to use it to those
The affair of the Danish cartoons is both a scandal and a storm signal. It is scandalous, as a horrific carnival of stupidity, hypocrisy and manipulated outrage celebrated with equal
In the last days of 2005, leading thinkers and scholars from around the world share their fears, hopes and expectations of 2006. As Isabel Hilton asks: What does 2006 have in store? (Part one)
Two hundred years after the battle of Trafalgar, when Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated the combined fleets of France and Spain, Britain is enjoying a binge of patriotism and hero-worship. Cathedral
Once upon a time, there was a kingdom ruled by two identical twins
Until 25 September's parliamentary elections in Poland, that was the first line of a fairy
The images accompanying this article come from the Wyspa Institute of Art exhibition “Dockwatchers” inside the Gdańsk shipyard.
From the exhibition catalogue:
“With ‘Dockwatchers’, happening alongside the official celebrations of
A few revolutions open the way to golden futures. All, without exception, open the path to golden pasts. Georgia's “rose revolution”, which brought young Mikheil (“Misha”) Saakashvili to
