MThe six-story building of the public broadcaster TVP stands in the middle of Warsaw, on Warsaw Insurgents' Square. This is where the new center-left government under Donald Tusk and the new national-conservative opposition under Jarosław Kaczyński are currently fighting their most spectacular conflict. TVP journalists refuse to leave the house. The police cordoned off the building with tape. Only one of the entrances is still open. Anyone who wants to enter has to pass the police officers, the security guards and the Christmas tree. The “resisters” are happy that a foreign journalist is coming by, apparently for the first time, to visit their besieged castle in the battle for television.

Anyone who walks along the long corridors will hear a mysterious silence. Where editorial operations used to be humming, only a few rooms are occupied. The “newsroom”, as the heart of the editorial team is called, is deserted. Behind the glass door: swivel chairs, screens, state-of-the-art technology. The small conference room on the third floor is busier. There are pastries and drinks on the long table. There are also posters in which Kaczyński, until recently the most powerful man in Poland and now opposition leader, calls for a “protest of free Poles” on January 11th, a rally in front of the parliament in Warsaw. The hall is also a kind of lounge for opposition politicians who are now “resisting” the new government’s plans. Michał Dworczyk, recently a minister, is sitting in a corner, typing something into his tablet. Some PiS MPs and senators also stay in the building at night.