Author, broadcaster, film-maker New book: Walking Europe's Last Wilderness - A Journey through the Carpathian Mountains. Out on 11 Feb 2025.
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'Are not these woods more free
from peril than the envious court?'
Excited to reveal the cover of my new book:
Walking Europe's Last Wilderness
available for pre-order now:
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300…
with many thanks to all at @YaleBooks
My thoughts on the 1956 anniversary in Hungary - beyond the hype open.substack.com/pub/nickth…
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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.
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Courageous, gut-wrenching. Read this from the BBC correspondent in Gaza, who is also a father and husband. bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-…
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Remembering my jam sessions with Mikhail Gorbachev. @BBCNews
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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?
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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/francesco…
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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!
In remarkable sermon @Pontifex asked audience to open the doors closed to ‘migrants and the poor’. Italian: ‘migrante, povero.’ Disappointingly translated as ‘menekültek’ = refugees
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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.
"disgusting, sinful and criminal’” - Pope Francis on the European response to migrants: amp.abc.net.au/article/10151…
As a result of my report, the electricity company have already promised action: bbc.com/news/av/world-europe… #hungary #storks #wildbirds #ClimateEmergency
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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."
‼️PM Viktor Orbán's long-time adviser, Zsuzsa Hegedüs resigns, telling his boss in a letter that "I don't know how you didn't notice that you were turning your earlier anti-migrant and anti-Europeanism into a pure Nazi speech worthy of Goebbels". @hvg_hu:
hvg.hu/itthon/20220726_Orban…
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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