Stories about home and homelessness, from eastern Europe and beyond. By Nick Thorpe, writer, broadcaster and film-maker.
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Making peace between Hungary and Ukraine
‘The freedom for which Hungarians fought in 1956,’ President András Baka said in his speech at the 81st General Assembly of the United Nations in New York on Thursday, ‘is the freedom that we must defend for Ukrainians today.’
By drawing t...
Dumbing Up
Pondering ‘super intelligence’, ‘radical indifference’ and ‘absence of concern’
Donald Trump has called for artificial intelligence to be referred to as “super intelligence” in US government documents, because he thinks the word “artificia...
A Lamb sleeps like this in Grass
A lamb sleeps like this in grass.
Slowly, with its own wool, darkness
covers it.
Milan Rúfus (1928-2009) Slovak poet
Since my first visit to eastern Europe in the early 1980s I’ve admired the sheep flocks rolling like slow wav...
Report from Mohács (2)
This is the text of my report for the BBC radio programme From Our Own Correspondent, first broadcast here on 5 September 2026 (the final item). It’s illustrated with my own photographs from the commemorative events in and around Mohács and...
Report from Mohács (1)
29 August 1526 was a Wednesday. ‘Wednesday’s child is full of woe…’ runs the old English nursery rhyme, and that certainly came true for the Hungarian-led, Christian army. Perhaps 20,000 of the 30,000 Christian soldiers fell in battle that...
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I’ve been travelling all my life, from my homes in England, Senegal, Germany, Finland, Greece and, since 1986, Hungary. I love the power and weight of the spoken and written word, as a writer, broadcaster, film-maker and gardener.
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