Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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.
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