On 1 April 1986 the BBC broadcast a documentary called Standing up for Joe. It was about Joe Horsley, a boy with severe disabilities, who had gone with his[…]
Without doubt this is one of the best, most readable and most informative memoirs written by a European political revolutionary and writer active in the first half of the 20th[…]
Think “Hungarian food” and for most people it’s the goulash that springs to mind, or a spicy red fish soup, perhaps served at a restaurant in a mock one-person bogrács[…]
Lake Balaton is the highlight of Hungarian summers, a place of sunshine, swimming, fried fish and lángos, and, depending on the shore, party towns or vine-covered hill slopes. That’s not[…]
This is a lengthy, scholarly work – though in the main it is not difficult to read. It deals with a serious and disturbing issue that has come to the[…]
Last Saturday some 3,000 marched down Andrássy Avenue in the annual Budapest Pride Parade with its train of music and colours. For anyone living or passing by, the signs that[…]
On Ajtósi Dürer sor, on a side of this quiet District XIV street opposite City Park, stand two buildings remarkable for their size and degree of ornamentation. One is a[…]
For many people these days one word is likely to spring to mind when Ukraine comes into the conversation: football. Boycott, too, might come up among those acquainted with the[…]
Greece is in turmoil. That much we know, or at least that’s what we constantly hear. The specific causes are not so well-known, even though newspapers often run Q&A columns[…]
This is a disturbing book, liable to upset a lot of readers, although for quite different, even contradictory reasons. Supporters of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his ruling Fidesz party[…]
