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Friday, 11 April 2025

POSK – Brochure

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History The Polish Social and Cultural Association (POSK) is a charity set up in 1964 by the Polish exiled community in the UK, at the in...
Thursday, 20 February 2025

Gorbachev and Trump

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Letter to The i Paper From W Moszczynski, 3 Isambard Court, Paddlers Avenue, Brentford Taw8 8FP, tel 07786471833. Dear Editor, On reading...
Saturday, 18 January 2025

100 year security defence pact with Ukraine

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Dear Editor, I have no doubt that Keir Starmer was sincere in offering Ukraine an imaginative 100 year security defence pact, but, as you...
Wednesday, 1 January 2025

The decision to invite EU migrants from central Europe to UK in 2004

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Dear Sir I always thought that Tony Blair's decision to open up the UK labour market to Poles and other EU citizens from central and e...
Monday, 30 September 2024

Can Lebanon finally tame Hezbollah?

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From Wiktor Moszczynski, 88 Isambard Court, Paddlers Avenue, Brentford TW8 8FP. Tel 07786471833 Dear Editor, Is there not another player w...
Monday, 12 August 2024

Why I volunteered for a stoma pouch

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Maggie's Centre, Charing Cross Hospital When I met the surgeon at St Mary’s Hospital, I was not ready for her sucker-punch. “We have ...
Tuesday, 6 August 2024

Response to the riots

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Letter to Editor of "i" Anne MCElvoy describes in her article "After the honeymoon, Labour faces reality" (i 05.08.202...
Sunday, 7 July 2024

There is a progressive majority of UK voters

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To Editor of The Observer Dear Sirs, I would not like to share the pessimism of Robert Ford's otherwise careful analysis of the 2024 ...
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Wiktor Moszczynski
London, United Kingdom
Born in London in 1946, had BA (Sussex)in international relations. Active in Polish Solidarity Campaign and its Chairman in 1982/83. 1990-1993 Vice Chair of the Federation of Poles in GB and in 1992 campaigned to abolish visas for Poles in the UK. Later as FPGB spokesman I challenged the anti-Polish campaign in the "Daily Mail". I was a columnist in the "Ealing Gazette" and author of "Hello I'm Your Polish Neighbour" (2008) and "Polak Londynczyk" (2011) 1994-2001 edited "Orzel Bialy". Councillor in Ipswich in 1979-1980. In 1983 I was Labour candidate for Bury St Edmunds and in 1984 Euro candidate for Suffolk and S.E.Cambs. As Ealing Borough Councillor in the years 1986-1990 I was Ealing's transport and ecology spokesman.I inaugurated the direct Greenford-Paddington rail link. In the early 1990s I chaired an Action Group which saved Ealing Common from a destructive road tunnel. Formerly an administrator in a City trading company, now employed by the London Chamber of Commerce. Married since 1972 to Albina Drabik, with one son Sandro, born 1990. Have received the Polish Golden Order of Merit (1992) "Bene Merito" medal (2010) and Commander's Croos of the Order of Merit (2014).
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