Prime Minister Orbán, Friday state radio interview: Healthcare reserves “don't look bad” - with 10,000 plus hospital beds and 1,700...

Continuing our look at Sir Bryan's diplomatic memories in his webinar on March 10 (see post March 18) - hosted by Bradford University and...

Former British Ambassador to Budapest and Moscow, Sir Bryan Cartledge - long free from Diplomatic Shackles - Talks from Gorbachov via...

And Now - 1.3m inoculated - deaths top 17,000 as hospitals struggle with 9,000 Covid patients Photo: 32 years ago today, Hungarians...

Controversy rages over vaccination programme as infections hit new daily record of 7,200 plus Vaccinations Going Well! The photo...

​PM Orbán warns country is facing "toughest two weeks of the pandemic" - urges public to register for inocculation Above: A screen shot...

Could it be English? Russian? Mandarin? Arabic? Or a Tongue yet More Exotic? ​Table: A section of the table revealing the numbers of...

The problem with public surveys - as illustrated by so perfectly by Sir Humphrey Photo: Another scene from Yes, Prime Minister. A gaping...

What is a burpee, you might ask? Up until last Thursday, I certainly did. Indeed, grammatically, is one allowed to burpee? Can it be a...

"I know this is a difficult concept to get across to a politician." Sir Humphrey (played by the late, South African-born Sir Nigel...

Experts (at least in English) frequently speak of the need to “flatten the curve” regarding infections – just not this way - as the...

Budapest Week, Jan 23 - Feb 3, 1993, Page 2, Featured this Inspiring story (Apologies re photo quailty, which makes her look like a...

Oh - and also the small detail of - how much? Photo: The illustration on the government website to the post on Minister Szijjártó's...

He's no longer as renowned in the west today as in 1992 (when I originally penned this), but arguably this powerful...

Hungary has come through the worst of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, Gergely Gulyás, head of the Prime Minister's Office,...

Someone asked me for a copy of an old Budapest Week yesterday. Any issue, he said. I had a bagfull in one of my (other) junk rooms. I put...

The much heralded arrival of usable vaccine – courtesy of the European Union and Brussels Bureaucracy, no less – together with the latest...

Coronavirus: Latest Official Data Looking Hopeful - but the Numbers Don't Stack Up ​All across Budapest, and I assume the country,...

Official Data in the Past Week is Hopeful As I left home at around 11.00 last Thursday I was surprised to find an oldish chappie in the...

Look, No Queues! Deaths related to the Covid-19 virus surged to 1,196 last week, breaking the four figurethreshold for the first time and...