Seeing all those complaints about the outcome of the American election, the comments on President-elect Trump’s intelligence capacities, and most of all the degrading comments about the American people and[…]
The sound of loud alarm frightened the peaceful inhabitants of the New York, Los Angeles and Washington D.C. power corridors. A political earthquake measuring nine on the Richter scale shook[…]
Europeans have not talked so much about European affairs as they have since the summer of 2016. After the clap of thunder generated by Brexit, another storm is building up[…]
The immortal saying (slightly adapted) “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the public” came to my mind when I read Jobbik president Gábor Vona’s recent announcement that[…]
There are presidential primaries in the United States and half of the world is terrified. The reason for the fear is not a crisis or a threat, coming from the[…]
I was a child when my mother first took me to see the wonderful ballet “Swan Lake”. In one scene a swan is dying in the middle of the lake.[…]
Four decades ago I read a snippet in a British newspaper which so impressed me that I cut it out and pasted it into my cherished notebook of thought-provoking quotes.[…]
Dear Editor Monica Porter’s essay in The Budapest Times (“I don’t blame Viktor Orbán”, October 16-22, 2015) was highly instructive and enlightening to me. I am particularly pleased with this[…]
The securing of a new homeland or the concept of conquest is basically a positive expression. Those who arrive at somewhere during a conquest are happy to establish a new,[…]
The Hungarian left wing doesn’t have a particularly bright future to look forward to in the current hopeless atmosphere. This is even more so if we consider that it has[…]
