Indeed, PiS looks like a one-man band, and Mr Kaczynski insists that foul play was behind the plane crash in Russia that two years ago killed his brother Lech, then Poland's president. (He still dresses in mourning.) Fans lap up the conspiracy theories, but other Poles find such talkridiculous.
Newcastle caretaker boss Glenn Roeder revealed on 21 March that Owen could be back in "three weeks" and suggested any talk of a setback was "ridiculous".