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Alex Faludy
@AlexanderFaludy
Journalist covering Politics/Religion in Hungary. Bylines: @Guardian @BalkanInsight @HunObserver. Views my own. RT’s don’t always = agreemenent.
Oct 4, 2022 • 16 tweets • 9 min read
🧵Rare for me publish in Hungarian media but 60th anniversary of 1st of Grandpa’s HAPPY DAYS IN HELL / Pokolbéli víg napjaim = good reason for piece in @MagyarHang this week. Please do purchase if you are in #Hungary. Contains super cute picture of me aged 2 btw.😉 @MagyarHang Hard to appreciate seismic impact the book (a bestseller) had in UK that year. It was = first full length gulag memoir published in English years before Solzhenitsyn‘s work (by which it was later overshadowed) became available. Picture of 1st edition in dust jacket here (Ebay).
Sep 27, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Thread 1/4 Am horrified by iresponsible behaviour of @BishopDorking + @nickbaines in allowing themselves to serve propaganda purposes of Kazak govt/ giving credibility to event designed to further propaganda of repressive Regime with grim record on #FoRB. churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2022/… 2/4 Kazak govt paid for/organised this event (which the bishops publicise). Worth recalling these words from @hrw “Political reforms promised in 2019 have not led to meaningful improvements in the country’s poor human rights record.”
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Apr 5, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
🧵 So my take on #hungaryelections + surprise devastating defeat of United Opposition. NB defeat not surprising but extent was (to them, pollsters, journalists + even #Fidesz). Important to reflect on how this should change our view of situ here. Some of this is painful to write. x2 caveats.
1) This isn’t about polling technicalities/quantitive data. Others have provided good technical explanations of poll + projection errors. This is qualitative reflection on how I (+others) have misread realities in #Hungary.
Apr 3, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Presently sitting in #Hungary’s National Election Office waiting for briefing to start (viz election process not result). Appropriately the office is on the street which leads to parliament: alkotmány utca (‘constitution street’).
Apr 3, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Maybe John Milbank the godfather of #RadicalOrthodoxy + #BlueLabour is still be angry about this article from 2020? #PostLiberal #Hungary opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-… Latest turnout figure for 30 mins before polls 67.80% - closing in on 2018’s 69.73%. There are no exit polls in #Hungary so turnout figure will be most exciting stat until results start coming in round 10pm CET.