Foreword
Urszula Chowaniec
Acknowledgments
How to Read the Book
PART I. A Personal Voice
Chapter 1. Mr Kaczyński, The Guardian and Me
Chapter 2. At Her Majesty’s Service!
PART II. An Academic Voice
Chapter 3. Modern Poland’s Political Blocs
Chapter 4. Post-Post-Colonial?
Chapter 5. The Confused Hopes of ‘Civil Society’
Chapter 6. Class Struggles
Chapter 7. An Imported Middle Class
PART III. A Reporter’s Voice
Chapter 8. Election-Year Issues
Playing the Race Card
When a Man Loves a Woman
Don't Shoot the Messenger!
Still the Economy, Stupid!
History: War and PiS
Brussels and Death
Culture: Reaching for the Revolver
Between Iraq and a Hard Place
PART IV. A Lay Voice
Chapter 9. Diary of British Media Coverage of the October 2019 Parliamentary Election
Part 1. Floating Frames
Part 2. “Some Losers”
Part 3. Post-Mortem
Chapter 10. Hiatus—The Election that Wasn’t, May 2020
Chapter 11. Diary of British Media Coverage of the June 2020 Presidential Elections
Part 1. Britain’s Centrist Media Picks its Polish Horse
Part 2. Round Two
Chapter 12. Synthesis: Finding a Voice Between the Sublime and the Ridiculous