Of course they are concentration camps. And @anatosaurus.bsky.social is right that once you accept the euphemism you are halfway to normalizing the thing.

We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar went on Orbán's state TV today for the first time in 18 months:

"This factory of lies will end once the Tisza govt is formed... What has been going on here since 2010, which even Goebbels or the North Korean dictator would have been envious of, cannot continue."

A lot of very confused Anglosphere reactions to Peter Magyar's ideological themes is just another indicator of how much the stances of Angela Merkel and her wing of the CDU in the 2010s led too many in the US and UK to forget how damned conservative much of the European Centre Right actually is

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

Not just a question of content. You need to show a convincing presence in the countryside. Campaign non-stop everywhere.

This is very true! And as the research on the issue shows and as the Hungarian example confirms, and the Polish one before that, the key to large turnout is long-term, grass-roots organizational labor that helps people understand how their single vote is a dignified part of a larger transformation.

Last week this man was Chamberlain to his own Hitler. This week he is Judas to his own Jesus.

One can pile up the blasphemies and the ironies or one could just say that this man is unwell.

"Autocracy runs on fear—on the assumption that enough people, confronted with sufficient consequences, will decide that compliance is safer than truth. What dismantled Orbán’s operation was the accumulation of individual decisions to the contrary."

Judge Dismisses Trump’s Suit Against The Wall Street Journal The judge said President Trump had not “plausibly alleged” that The Journal published the article with actual malice.

Big libel defeat… www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/b...

Well someone likes to come out swinging 👀

Apparently the Vicar of Christ is "Weak on Nuclear Weapons." Who knew?

The new leader of Hungary is a cat lover😻

Congratulations 😸

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

This really is rather inspiring.
Thank you Hungary.

Many things to say about the demise of Orbanism but the scale of his defeat is impressive. This is surely also a rejection of Trump & Vance. The threatened new era of official US interference in European domestic politics has got off to a satisfyingly calamitous start

Ah. The cards. David Davis appears to have lent his magic Brexit pack to Donald Trump.

historic rejection of JD Vance

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

When it all gets to be too much, and you think you can’t go on, take a look at this. Two legends in the fight for freedom and justice.

Jane Fonda and Joan Baez.
No Kings - March 28, 2026

In which the US president tells you implicitly and then explicitly that they are not on control of events and indeed that they do not know what is happening.

The intention, of course, is to bully and give an impression of exercising power, but the impression conveyed is the opposite.

Tiny possum and glider thought extinct for 6,000 years found in remote West Papua The discovery of two lost species is 'exceptional' and rare, scientists say

Tiny possum and glider thought extinct for 6,000 years found in remote West Papua. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Does husband count as a species?

James Talarico is seen holding a microphone and wearing an open white shirt and jacket. A headline reads: James Talarico Wins Democratic Senate Primary in Texas. Photo by Tamir Kalifa for The New York Times

James Talarico, a 36-year-old state legislator, won the Democratic nomination for Senate in Texas, finishing ahead of Representative Jasmine Crockett as his party’s voters put their faith in him to pursue an elusive decades-long goal of turning the state blue. nyti.ms/4u8ZS3k

Exactly: turning shit into roses

Yup

Vince did a dump on my work desk and I'm quite tempted to post it on LinkedIn with the caption: 'What cleaning cat shit from my desk taught me about leadership'.

Thoughts @ottocr.at @jonworth.eu ?

Protecting the environment and pursuing green policies is so baked into how the public views the Greens that they don't need to make a huge effort to convince people that they are strongest in this field.

That gives them the freedom to pursue other issues

I'm not sure I agree. And I don't see how that would be worse than now.