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...

And the Bad: Covid Numbers Explode - Infections top 6,000 on four consecutive days Miklós Kásler, Hungary's Minister of Human Resources...

Photo: The Coronvirus does not pick and choose - an official poster urging vigilance in the fight against the pandemic​ Mixed news...

Covid-19 cases by county in Hungary. Active infections now stand at 106,265, 75% of the total 140,961 cited here since the start of the...

UPDATED - New measures announced on Monday morning - see link at end Photo: A government-sponsored placard informs the public that the...

The coronavirus pandemic in Hungary this week took on a new turn: as infections and deaths rose to unprecedented levels, independent...

​Just one week ago, a Czech-based friend emailed me after reading the latest post on the state of Covid-19 in Hungary. “Compared to here,...