But journalists dismissed the explanation as a smokescreen – pointing out that it came days after the paper disclosed corruption allegations against a minister in Orbán's Fidesz party and a scandal embroiling the governor of the national bank.
Much the same smokescreen turns out to have hung over one of Brown's colleagues in the Wilson cabinet, now a decade dead, whose biography apparently remains unwritten owing to the difficulty the biographer first commissioned to write it had in dealing with all the sexual irregularity.
Behind a smokescreen of lies he has renewed his drive to carve out a puppet para-state in eastern Ukraine.
"This announcement is a smokescreen on the day that the Royal College of GPs have come out against their Health Bill, joining the royal colleges of radiologists, nursing and midwives in full opposition to their plans," he said.
UNITED NATIONS — World leaders have been operating behind a smokescreen of "quiet dialogue" to avoid publicly singling out nations that abuse individual rights, Human Rights Watch said in its annual report released Monday, criticizing in particular Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, for failing to speak out more forcefully.
"The common understanding is that the UK 'helps' Africa through aid, but in reality this serves as a smokescreen for the billions taken out," said Martin Drewry, director of Health Poverty Action, one of the NGOs behind the report.
This smokescreen of language is worthy of George Orwell's Newspeak.
The DVD of his Edinburgh award-winning Smokescreens & Castles show is out on 7 November.
It turned out to be a smokescreen for military preparations.
Similar arguments made during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, when currencies and stock markets collapsed in much of Southeast Asia, turned out to be a smokescreen to protect the executives who were partly responsible for the mess.
