Friendly faces when they’re most needed
In a world where politics polarises people, where contrary opinions can ruin friendships, where ideological differences can result in being ostracised, it’s easy to forget
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StreetCalling
The city is awash with conversations about immigrants and migration. Those in charge have launched a rather dubious poster campaign with billboards admonishing migrants not
Speaking for charity
‘How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.’ When Shakespeare first penned those lines in the
Stop *&^!* thief!
The first Advent candle has been lit and the countdown to Christmas has officially begun. December is one of my favourite months of the year.
Backstreets wanderer
‘So’, I said, ‘what do you want to do?’ My visitor technically wasn’t my visitor at all. I’d borrowed him for the afternoon from a
Into the unknown on wings of imagination
You would think that after seven years in a sometimes volatile but never boring relationship, I would have glimpsed, even if not fully understood, most
Christmas in the spring
It feels a little bit like Christmas here in Budapest, in spite of the fact that bare legs and bellies are being lured out of
The right to bitch
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness
Hire that algorithim
I’m all for living in the present. For getting through the next minute, hour, day, or week without any major catastrophe. I’m in favour of
Irish. In Budapest. Next week.
It’s not difficult to be Irish abroad, especially not in Hungary. And especially not during the lead-up to St Patrick’s Day. When he was writing
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