Having just returned from a short stay in the land of my fathers I thought I would put together a brief but rigorously scientific overview of the state of the Polish diaspora in the UK. This serves the dual purpose of making it look like I was doing something for the past week and allowing [...]

The word ‘pole’ is unique in the English language in that it is the only word that refers both to a person from a particular country and an inanimate object, or rather several different inanimate objects. “Swede” comes close since it is the word for a person from Sweden as well as a delicious root [...]