Ben StanleyWhy I Am GoingShe didn’t believe me. She just laughed nervously and immediately apologised, sensing it wasn’t right to laugh. But she didn’t believe me…Oct 10, 2021Oct 10, 2021
Ben StanleyThou Shalt Not Be IndifferentMarian Turski, speech at the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, 27th January 2020.Jan 28, 20201Jan 28, 20201
Ben StanleyThe schmopulism filterEveryone’s a populism specialist right now. Unfortunately, not everyone is really all that on top of the literature, so the term often gets…Nov 21, 2016Nov 21, 2016
Ben StanleyA brief pictorial reminder of one of the most salient differences between the Committee for the…Being for the benefit of Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Blaszczak.Sep 7, 2016Sep 7, 2016
Ben StanleyPost-fact politics in a single quotationOr how Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s dictum that ‘everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts’ has turned back on itself…Aug 19, 2016Aug 19, 2016
Ben StanleySome random thoughts on returning from Zakopane……written to stave off the boredom of a clean, smooth, efficient but rather soulless Pendolino journey from Kraków to WarsawAug 19, 20161Aug 19, 20161