Researcher, writer, and broadcaster on Poland, East-Central Europe, and Britain. Postdoc affiliate @cambridge_uni. In @newsweek, @prospect_uk, @theipaper etc.
Cambridge/Lincolnshire
Joined January 2018
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Really delighted that my article on ‘T.S. Eliot, Post-War Geopolitics and “Eastern Europe”’ has just been published in Critical Quarterly (open access, too!).
Dedicated to my mum.
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Photos from the silent march in Kraków last night
#Krakow #MarszCiszy #MarszNaRynku #znicze #RynekGlowny
Marsz Ciszy na Rynku Głównym.
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The dispute around Poland's constitutional court risks entrenching a system of legal dualism in which judicial authority depends on political allegiance rather than broad constitutional consent, writes @AleksSzczerbiak notesfrompoland.com/2026/11/…
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I was at the Novaya Gazeta yesterday as its reporters and editors packed up and held their final editorial meeting at Potapovsky Pereulok. The newspaper survived so much, but it could not survive Russia's war in Ukraine.
One reader I talked to described the disappearance of the Novaya as a "spiral of silence," saying:
“When voices like these disappear from public life, it starts to feel like there are fewer and fewer people who think differently, like you’re alone in what you believe,” said a 21-year-old reader, Danila, a recent university graduate with a degree in computer programming. He asked that his last name not be published, to avoid trouble with the authorities.
“The less you hear people expressing views different from the official narrative,” he said, “the harder it gets to speak up yourself.”
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If you're in Cambridge, please join me tomorrow for what is sure to be an immiserating discussion of Russia's past and present in an age of digital war and memory.
I'll be joined by Jon Davis (Anglia Ruskin), Charlie Hancock (Moscow Times), and Eva Nieto McAvoy (KCL), so we have a great team lined up!
@CamUkrainistyka @CRASSHlive
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Le Brexit a aussi eu droit à un « flash » de l’AFP. Mais ce n’était plus une dépêche « papier » sur téléscripteur (apportées aux journalistes par un préposé) … Depuis fin 80/début 90, les dépêches des différentes agences arrivent directement sur les écrans.
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Once this period of reflection and mourning is over, book yourself a trip to Kraków next spring.
It’s a fantastic, stunningly beautiful city with great stories - and, despite this weekend’s incident, very, very safe. You will thank me later.
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Tonight in Cracow thousands of Poles gathered to pay tribute to the victims of November 7 attack. May they rest in peace.
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She's back! The one-woman NIMBY campaign against Montenegro continues with yet another newspaper feature. This time, those sketchy Montenegrin guys might have guns or drugs!
When one of the two policemen injured in the attack in Kraków at the weekend awoke from his coma, his first words were to ask if the other policeman was alive
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Krakow right now. The city is mourning, quite literally. The old town square is open. But it remains quiet. Everyone knows.
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EXCL: The UK is lagging behind other European countries in public understanding of the threat posed by Russia, the head of the British military has warned in an interview with @FT.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, chief of the defence staff, said that Britain needed to “catch up with our European allies”, including those geographically closer to Russia who felt the proximity of its aggression and the war in Ukraine more acutely.
He promised further action to counter Moscow’s submarines in the North Atlantic, ahead of a new ‘northern navies’ maritime pact between the UK and nine Northern European allies (Netherlands, Nordics, Baltics and Iceland), expected to be signed on Tuesday.
ft.com/content/9d49deb8-33f6…
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A Reflective Day at The Polish Bomber Squadrons Centre (RAF Ingham) Lincolnshire for Our Remembrance Service this Morning especially with recent tragic events in Krakow. The Service was made very special by the attendance of 60 'Polish Eagle Motorbike Riders' and Veterans.
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Today we launched the Vulcănești–Chișinău power line, linking Moldova to Romania and the European grid. For decades, Moscow used energy to blackmail us. No more: Moldova buys zero Russian gas, and two more power lines to Romania are on the way. Thanks to all who made it happen.
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BREAKING: Poland's interior minister says two police officers who were injured during yesterday's shooting in Krakow are out of comas.
The shooting killed six people, including a British tourist.
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The Zygmunt bell announces profound moments for the Polish nation.
Today, it rings with sorrow for Kraków and the country after six innocent people were shot in the heart of the city.
Through November fog, you can’t even see the Wawel Cathedral tower, but the sound says it all.
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Józef Mehoffer - Rynek krakowski (olej na desce, 55,5 x 69 cm), 1903, Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie. #PolishMastersofArt
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The hejnał in Kraków this evening - a trumpet call played on the hour, every hour, and, according to legend, abruptly stopping mid-note to commemorate a trumpeter from centuries ago who was hit with an arrow as he played. A symbol of Kraków.
