HeyJaredA Kind of Solution
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 (opens the original)
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‘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.’<div class="i
Dumbing Up (opens the original)
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Pondering ‘super intelligence’, ‘radical indifference’ and ‘absence of concern’<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="4032" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!e1Mh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:st
A Lamb sleeps like this in Grass (opens the original)
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A lamb sleeps like this in grass.Slowly, with its own wool, darknesscovers it.Milan Rúfus (1928-2009) Slovak poet<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1092" src="https://substackcdn.c
Report from Mohács (2) (opens the original)
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This is the text of my report for the BBC radio programme From Our Own Correspondent, first broadcast here on 5 September 2026 (the final item). It’s illustrated with my own photographs from the commemorative events in and around Mohács and Sátorhely on 29 August.Alternatively, you can listen to my report here:<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yDrw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-
Report from Mohács (1) (opens the original)
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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 day, overcome by a 70-80,000 strong Ottoman force, though the numbers are disputed. They came from Hungary, Bohemia, Croatia, Poland, Italy, Serbia, Moravia and Germany. The Germans were mercenaries, almost certainly Hussites - Protestants in a largely Catholi
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