Almost sixty years ago, four young Tory activists – Tim Raison, editor of a small conservative magazine; Christopher Chataway, a famous British athlete; Trevor Philpott, a journalist on Picture Post; and Colin Jones, a financial writer on the Economist – launched a campaign in Raison’s magazine, Crossbow, to make 1960
The 2015 British election was a turning point for the Labour party from which it is hard to see it recovering in its present form. Moreover, there is no obvious centre left success story elsewhere in Europe which might provide a guide and inspiration for a Labour recovery. The temporary
Most of the international media coverage of the European Union’s migration crisis concentrates on the flow of African and Middle Eastern people across the Mediterranean to southern Italy or Greece. Dramatic sea-rescues and the tragedy of frequent drowning grab headlines and sympathetic coverage. But through the Balkans another wave of
If there was any event in Europe that could have been foreseen, it was the Kosovo exodus which happened before our eyes this year. It is already taught at schools that the youngest population in Europe is that of Kosovo, and university professors have been warning us for ten years
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It is important to draw a distinction between ideology and ideals. Ideology is a blinkered view of the world, and it results in people being under constant pressure to conform, to somehow bring reality into line with an idea. This most commonly results in dogmatism or rigidity, and simplistic approaches.
1 HR: We begin our interview on the 25th anniversary, almost to the day, that the government of József Antall was formed, the first democratically elected Hungarian Government since 1947. As you mentioned in another article, you were the editor of the speech in which Antall presented his government’s programme
The publication, in October 2014, of the volume of retrospective interviews with Miklós Németh1 by András Oplatka2 was met with considerable interest in Hungary, for a number of reasons. One that readily meets the eye consists of the unusual career of Miklós Németh, who in November 1988 unexpectedly, perhaps even
The widows of Kesztölc, guardians of faith and hope, may their true plain hearts in prayers and piety rest. Widows so alike, that none do slacken in piety, none can die without prayers and whispers of immortality. My mother was no widow, but she prayed and hoped. For her, divine,
Fishy Country Szakácsi, Hungary, 16 September 1414. On the shield below, flames lick the tail of a pike with sprigs of a bay bush poking out of its gills. The helmet crest is adorned with a cooked pike head, gaze lifted with a beatific smile, a bay tree on each
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