the POLSKI blog

As everybody who lives in Britain knows, people in power love increasing taxes on alcohol and cigarettes in a futile attempt to curb drinking and smoking.
Strangely enough, it would seem it worked in Poland. Of all countries.
This dry press release quoting “the Polish spirits industry organization” claims that
Poland registered a 75-percent drop in vodka drinking [...]

When I used to work near Holborn I used to drag my colleagues (or were dragged myself) to a little place, tucked away in a narrow passage just behind Holborn tube station, called Bar Polski. Not for patriotic resons, mind. I just loved their range of vodkas, back then almost totally unknown in Britain – [...]