In Poland, a revolution is afoot. Not the sort that will conjure up glorious memories of 1989, or transfix the minds of Slavophiles reared in that era and eager to make Warsaw into Westminster-on-the-Vistula. This one, rather, particularly offends their senses. The Law and Justice party (PiS) has spent much of its two years in power irritating the staunch defenders of liberal democracy to the west. Now the party, under the leadership of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, is going farther, attempting to bring the country's judiciary under political control ...
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