SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
Polish state complicit in escalation of homophobia
ANGUS REID draws attention to the case of Tomasz Kitlinski, an academic targeted by a provincial governor in an increasing vociferous campaign of LGBT witch-hunting
TWO months ago the Star published a letter I wrote with the Polish academic Tomasz Kitlinski, to draw attention to the way a far-right agenda was penetrating Polish universities.
A prominent ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party politician, Przemyslaw Czarnek — well-known for his discriminatory views — had just been honoured with a medal Amicis Universitatis by Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, where Kitlinski lectures.
Czarnek, the governor of Lublin province, has form when it comes to abusing minorities.
Similar stories
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the difficulties surrounding freedom of expression
Ecuador’s election wasn’t free — and its people will pay the price under President Noboa



