Ben Stanley
@benstanley.eu
Associate Professor, SWPS University. Welsh by birth. English by upbringing. Irish by design. Polish by choice. I am a lineman for the county.
This is the march the Polish president chose to grace with his presence today.
November 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
This is the march the Polish president chose to grace with his presence today.
"Jeden stoi z przodu i gniewem płonie, więc ty spijasz słowa z jego ust i chłoniesz / On ma modny krawat, pasuje jak ulał, problem w tym, że pod krawatem jest brunatna koszula"
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"Jeden stoi z przodu i gniewem płonie, więc ty spijasz słowa z jego ust i chłoniesz / On ma modny krawat, pasuje jak ulał, problem w tym, że pod krawatem jest brunatna koszula"
Wszystkim, którzy obchodzą ten dzień…
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Wszystkim, którzy obchodzą ten dzień…
he looks up to him, but down on him
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
he looks up to him, but down on him
Oh FFS what has happened to this newspaper?
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Oh FFS what has happened to this newspaper?
If he’s spent three weeks eating nothing but yoghurt then perhaps this is a gambit to head off dirty protests
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
If he’s spent three weeks eating nothing but yoghurt then perhaps this is a gambit to head off dirty protests
I would simply not do the corrupt things
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I would simply not do the corrupt things
Thanks, The Times, for your brave candour. How else would I have discovered that nipples are characterised by large square patches?
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Thanks, The Times, for your brave candour. How else would I have discovered that nipples are characterised by large square patches?
The fact that they settled in Sosnowiec should have been enough to put the authorities on their tail immediately. It’s Polish Memetown, like having all of the UK to choose from and opting for Milton Keynes.
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The fact that they settled in Sosnowiec should have been enough to put the authorities on their tail immediately. It’s Polish Memetown, like having all of the UK to choose from and opting for Milton Keynes.
“Locked off Peak District until the Feds came.”
Makes you proud to be British.
Makes you proud to be British.
November 9, 2025 at 12:08 PM
“Locked off Peak District until the Feds came.”
Makes you proud to be British.
Makes you proud to be British.
“We asked for signs
The signs were sent
The birth betrayed
The marriage spent
Yeah, and the widowhood
Of every government
Signs for all to see”
The signs were sent
The birth betrayed
The marriage spent
Yeah, and the widowhood
Of every government
Signs for all to see”
November 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“We asked for signs
The signs were sent
The birth betrayed
The marriage spent
Yeah, and the widowhood
Of every government
Signs for all to see”
The signs were sent
The birth betrayed
The marriage spent
Yeah, and the widowhood
Of every government
Signs for all to see”
“There were a few valuables missing when I got up this morning, but no harm done. These are my friends. They greatly respect me.”
November 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
“There were a few valuables missing when I got up this morning, but no harm done. These are my friends. They greatly respect me.”
It's been bothering me for a while that Poland's justice minister looks like someone I couldn't quite place, and I've just realised he's a more hirsute Bob Mortimer
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It's been bothering me for a while that Poland's justice minister looks like someone I couldn't quite place, and I've just realised he's a more hirsute Bob Mortimer
“The number of people permitted in this toilet at once is 1 (in words: one). Please abide by this limit. Thank you.”
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“The number of people permitted in this toilet at once is 1 (in words: one). Please abide by this limit. Thank you.”
W wielu krajach są grandmothers, ale tylko w Polsce jest babcia.
November 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
W wielu krajach są grandmothers, ale tylko w Polsce jest babcia.
That does rather seem to be a consideration that might deserve a larger degree of attention than it seems thus far to have received
November 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
That does rather seem to be a consideration that might deserve a larger degree of attention than it seems thus far to have received
Feels like “vast” and “desert” are two blinking red signs for anyone proposing mammoth civilisational projects, maybe there‘s a poem about that
November 6, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Feels like “vast” and “desert” are two blinking red signs for anyone proposing mammoth civilisational projects, maybe there‘s a poem about that
The rest of it he had to share with Marvin Gaye.
November 6, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The rest of it he had to share with Marvin Gaye.
Updated Polish polls. KO has pulled ahead of PiS after a long period of there being nothing in it, although the two OGB polls that had KO nudging 40% were clearly outliers. Yet the likeliest government would still be PiS-led.
November 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Updated Polish polls. KO has pulled ahead of PiS after a long period of there being nothing in it, although the two OGB polls that had KO nudging 40% were clearly outliers. Yet the likeliest government would still be PiS-led.
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In a world where money was no object, I would pay @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com to take this tour and write it up
In a world where money was no object, I would pay @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com to take this tour and write it up
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
tours.historyexplorer.com/poland-grand...
In a world where money was no object, I would pay @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com to take this tour and write it up
In a world where money was no object, I would pay @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com to take this tour and write it up
“Travel is allowed via any permitted route”, confusing those of us who had assumed travel would be allowed only by those routes on which it is not permitted.
Frankly I’d have to be *paid* £20,000 to do that commute.
Frankly I’d have to be *paid* £20,000 to do that commute.
November 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“Travel is allowed via any permitted route”, confusing those of us who had assumed travel would be allowed only by those routes on which it is not permitted.
Frankly I’d have to be *paid* £20,000 to do that commute.
Frankly I’d have to be *paid* £20,000 to do that commute.