Personally, I want to take a minute to appreciate the fact that somebody who was born in Baghdad, to a Kurdish family, who arrived in the UK as a child after fleeing Saddam Hussein, who could speak no English, just ran to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The British Dream

Orbán's resigning adviser tells the PM that her Jewish father barely survived forced labour & her mother was almost shot into the Danube. "This horror could only have happened because too many people were silent when the kind of hatred the Nazis were building on was being born."

bbc.com/news/world-eur… #hungary #CPAC

As a result of my report, the electricity company have already promised action: bbc.com/news/av/world-… #hungary #storks #wildbirds #ClimateEmergency

"disgusting, sinful and criminal’” - Pope Francis on the European response to migrants: amp.abc.net.au/article/101517…

This is interesting in the context of stuff the other day linking the decline in Christianity in the UK to immigration. I don't think I've ever seen a top level white British footballer speak so frankly about religion.

How sad and painful it is to see closed doors: the closed doors of our selfishness, of our indifference towards those who are suffering, towards those who are foreigners, different, the migrant, the poor. Let's open those doors, please! vatican.va/content/france…

In remarkable sermon Pope Leo XIV asked audience to open the doors closed to ‘migrants and the poor’. Italian: ‘migrante, povero.’ Disappointingly translated as ‘menekültek’ = refugees

I thank the beloved Hungarian people for their welcome and the affection I have experienced in these days. I entrust all Hungarians to Our Lady. Grateful for these days, I keep you in my heart and ask you to pray for me. Isten áld meg a magyart!

Broadcasters and journalists should challenge ministers who use the term "illegal" immigrants when referring to asylum seekers crossing the Channel in small boats. It is poor journalism not to do so.They may be "unlawful" but they have done nothing illegal. Why not say so?

Remembering my jam sessions with Mikhail Gorbachev. BBC News (UK)

Courageous, gut-wrenching. Read this from the BBC correspondent in Gaza, who is also a father and husband. bbc.co.uk/news/world-mid…

It was an honour for me to play the piano at George Alagiah’s memorial service. Such an emotional, uplifting celebration of his life. Here’s the montage of George at work and at home for which I provided a musical accompaniment.

Session 01 - Dimbes youtu.be/NNvaN7h0ItY?si… via YouTube

A Kind of Solution open.substack.com/pub/nickthorpe…

The Brittleness of Power open.substack.com/pub/nickthorpe…

On the Great Hungarian Plain open.substack.com/pub/nickthorpe…

The Good Tribe open.substack.com/pub/nickthorpe…

My thoughts on the 1956 anniversary in Hungary - beyond the hype open.substack.com/pub/nickthorpe…