Matt Goodwin’s Lucrative Hungarian Fellowship Could Be in Line for the Chop Following Orbán’s Defeat The Orbán-controlled body for which the Reform UK and GB News commentator is a ‘visiting fellow’ is facing investigation over alleged misuse of public funds

Schadenfreude lol? bylinetimes.com/2026/04/13/m...

Standard mantra from the UK right for months. They think they can psych a government with a 165 seat majority into holding an election 3.5 years early.

Why Boris Johnson keeps on winning Despite a global pandemic and economic shutdown, the PM's popularity just won't wane

"Boris Johnson has consistently been underestimated. Ever since he became the leader of the Conservative Party, just over a year ago, he has been routinely mocked and derided by people who have simultaneously failed to make sense of his appeal." - someone or other in 2020. unherd.com/2020/07/why-...

Ooo, this'll be good. (= This'll be bad, but entertaining.)

His repertoire of UK complaints must be going over a treat with the Budapest crowd.

Shhh Matt, don't tell foreign audiences that, they'll all want to come.

Oh, THAT kind of grooming. Had visions of a Jane Austen x Gorillas in the Mist mashup for a moment.

"Keep our Johnnies English!"

Humza Yousaf brands Reform 'UK's worst losers' after blaming Muslims for defeat NIGEL Farage’s Reform have been branded “the UK’s worst losers” after blaming their by-election defeat on Muslims.

Yeah, they were coming out with that the day after he lost. www.thenational.scot/news/2589274...

Given that he wasn't successful in becoming a Roundhead, I guess that makes him a Cavalier.

Thread also reveals the disturbing detail that there's a chain of cafes in Budapest called Scruton.

Jon Worth is taking the hit for all of us: bsky.app/profile/jonw...

Disappointed that nobody in the lead-up to the Hungarian election went with the headline "Victor or Banished?"

This call for help also shows an incredible long-term record of climate change. March is fast becoming the new April.

Pretty sure there was a solo Guy Chadwick one along the way too, which Wikipedia surprisingly fails to mention. Stunned to learn that he's 70. Shurely shome mishtake.

Slavishly kept buying their later albums despite diminishing returns. Now realised I've missed a 2022 one.

A decent indie-level profile in Oz, but mainly for their second album on Fontana, which is the one I prefer. That being, of course, "The House of Love" rather than, erm, "The House of Love".

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

Yesterday's storm in a breakfast teacup in the UK was over marmalade, the word we preserved for our own preserve while we were in the EU and now find we can't once we aren't. #brexit

Free with every copy of the Mail on Sunday, a CD of the nutty boys’ most right-on tracks!

"Human civilization has lasted 249 years, 8 months, and 27 days."

Earned settlement: retrospective change is wrong but prospective change is even worse Changing the rules for migrants already here is wrong and unfair but only affects a finite group of people. Extending default settlement to 10 years or more for everyone is a social policy disaster.

Changing the rules for migrants already here is wrong and unfair but only affects a finite group of people. Extending default settlement to 10 years or more for everyone is a social policy disaster. open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

What the world really needs now are more 2,000-word essays about AI written by actual humans who are unafraid to include em-dashes. speedysnail.com/2026/03/what...

Weekend Update #178: Two Weeks Into The Russian Spring Offensive And The Ukrainians Have Gained Territory The Ranged War and the Ukrainian Destruction of Russian Baltic Oil Terminals; Ukraine Helps The Gulf States

Hi All, Just sent out my free weekend update. Three big stories. First, the Russian Spring Offensive is almost two weeks old, and Ukraine remarkably still seems to be gaining territory in places. 2026 looks to be starting much worse for the Russians than 2025. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Sounds right. Good excuse for a rewatch!

Missing good-alt 1985 at end of pt 2?

On disappearing accents...

2.000.000,00 Euro, all for me?

Canvas Unrolls AI Teaching Agent The new AI agent aims to save faculty time on “low-value tasks,” but stops short of fully automating grading. But some experts worry that the rise of agentic AI could lead to a dead classroom, where c...

Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Paging @andrewhunterm.bsky.social of R4's The Naked Week: this is, apparently, something to do with witches.