the POLSKI blog

Today’s papers quote the Office for National Statistics which claims that “Between the year ending December 2003 and the year ending September 2010 the Polish-born population of the UK increased from 75,000 to 521,000″ It also claims that in recent times immigration of Polish people has declined: Immigration was highest in 2007 at 96,000 Polish citizens, [...]

I’ve been asked several times recently whether it’s true that Poles in the UK are going back home for good. The simplest answer is: I don’t know. To start with, it’s never been clear how many Poles have actually settled in the UK since Poland joined the EU. I remember reporting on the influx of [...]

A strange thing has happened. A Polish social networking site called Nasza Klasa, a cross between Friends Reunited and Facebook, was the 6th most popular social networking site in the UK, according to Hitwise UK. This is a clear sign of a few things, I guess, but most importantly: a) Poles are as crazy about [...]

What does it feel like to be in a foreign country, trying to get a job? Poles Apart from Hard Graft Theatre on Vimeo. Thoughts? Have you seen their performance? I’d be curious to know…

By how many Polish people go back home. That’s if you believe the Guardian. Last weekend the paper published a couple of articles in which it outlined the most obvious signs of a recession. And they are a lower electricity consumption and reverse migration of Poles (is there such a thing, or have I just [...]

Polish PM Donald Tusk was in London yesterday. He was supposed to try and convince Poles living here to come back to Poland, by asking “Do you have a return PLan?’ (PL stands for Poland, of course). All that because the Polish government has launched a special site, where Poles living in the UK can [...]