David Oldroyd Web Log

Extracts from a monthly Letter from Poland written by an English ex-patriate living in Silesia for the last decade. The blog intends to offer insights into things Polish as well as broader international issues relating to our collective global future.

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Polish Celebrations and Graceful Ageing

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Yet another Polish ‘long weekend’ break from the monotony of paid toil has just been officially added to the calendar for 2011 giving Thurs...
Sunday, 19 December 2010

Better than Rio and catching up with liberal values

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The devout inhabitants of Swiebodzin in conservative western Poland have recently been featured in the global news media by out-competing th...

PO ascendent in local elections; Catholic Church exploits the Internet

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In the November local elections in Poland, the rank order of results predicted in the run up to the elections by the New Poland Express were...
Friday, 26 November 2010

November 2010 update on political happenings

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There seems to be no end to the political shenanigans that beset this country now over 20 years into its life as a liberal parliamentary dem...
Thursday, 23 September 2010

September 2010 Letter from Zwakow-Suble

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Our preoccupation with the antics of the nationalistic extremists and the divisive behaviour of Jaroslaw Kaczynski is still being fed by the...
Tuesday, 13 April 2010

Looking for something positive from the Polish disaster

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This inspiring article The Glory of Poland by Roger Cohen appeared in today’s New York Times. “NEW YORK — My first thought, hearing of the...

The latest Polish tragedy

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We awoke on Saturday 10 April to hear on the news an inconclusive report of an air crash near Smolensk. It took a little time to establish ...
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Semi-retired after starting a career as a geography teacher in 1962 and eventually specialising in educational leadership and pedagogy at the University of Bristol and then as an independent consultant working mainly in post-communist transition countries.
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