Not sure Rory was wise to eulogise about the Galapagos - Trump will be turning it into a Disney playground before you know it.

🇮🇹 PM Meloni: Today, we discussed at length with President Zelenskyy how to strengthen our defence cooperation with Ukraine.

Italy is very keen to develop joint production, especially in field of drones — a sector in which Ukraine has become a leading nation in recent years.

Well done everyone

82% for rejoin now

Only 13% stick with Brexit and 4% for closer ties.

26k votes

Live from NWT Ranworth Broad YouTube video by Norfolk Wildlife Trust

Watch this! Superb Norfolk Wildlife Trust nestcam showing ospreys nesting at Ranworth. Last summer they were the first osprey to fledge chicks in East Anglia for hundreds of years. There's some fabulous action right now, male eating fish, female asking for some! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bevw...

Absolutely delightful footage - has the egg now hatched?

CNN’s Harry Enten: “To quote the great Scooby Doo, it's a ‘ruh roh’ moment for Trump when it comes to non-college White voters. His net approval is down 34 pts from last year and is now negative in the average of polls. This decline is putting the Senate race in Ohio (a state Trump won 3x) in play.”

It’s time that the nations of the world sent the bill for the billions of dollars Trump’s war on Iran has cost them. He is, to say the least, a transactional president so he can hardly object.

@therestpolitics.bsky.social It’s time that the nations of the world sent the bill for the billions of dollars Trump’s war on Iran has cost them. He is, to say the least, a transactional president so he can hardly object.

It’s time that the nations of the world sent the bill for the billions of dollars Trump’s war on Iran has cost them. He is, to say the least, a transactional president so he can hardly object.

Why an Orbán loss would be a huge win for the EU - and disastrous for Putin and MAGA It's hard to understate how much vast geopolitics hinges on an election in a country with a population of only 9.6M

💥 This piece that I published on Sat has now shot up in relevance, thankfully!

Pls read the bits about:
- the importance of the 2/3 majority
- the frozen €20B EU funds that can now be released
- the €90B that can now go to Ukraine
- how this blows Trump’s National Security Strategy

@therestpolitics.bsky.social Is the BBC showing a rightwing bias by excluding Bluesky as a conduit for messaging whilst using X? Like millions of others I closed my X account because of its violent and divisive content so have no
means by which to comment on programmes like Politics Live.

Hungary have ignored pernicious US propaganda, congratulations. The Tories and Reform are now spreading the lie that by aligning the UK with the single market we are “betraying” Brexit. The vote never defined the terms and the Tories CHOSE to leave the single market, we did NOT vote for that.

Wow, what a beautiful bird - congratulations to the citizens of Hungary.

Absolutely, there is a wonderful medieval Italian word, companilisimo, which means patriotism to your city: I am a proud Londoner, European and Brit.

christ, not to relitigate It a decade on but it's hard to watch people happily waving Hungarian flags and EU flags at the same time and not think "oh right, almost like it's not that fucking hard to realise that you can have and cherish multiple, complimentary identities"

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@therestpolitics.bsky.social Looking forward to your analysis of Hungary’s election result which, it seems, Orban has already conceded.

Mike Galsworthy's opinion is the one I've been waiting for. He brilliantly distills this victory in Hungary.

It's clear that the Hungarian people want Magyar to clean house.

Fantastic news Mike, thank you for the lucid - and wonderfully positive - analysis.

Even more if they stop appeasing the madman in the White House - we may even take back control!

Hoist by their own petard?

The best interests of the UK prevail at last. About time.

Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil Good Law Project has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK

Great article, and it's right to highlight how the profits from Russian oil fund the Mathias Corvinus Collegium.

The Orban regime buys Russian oil at a discount, but Hungarians pay the full amount at the pumps. The regime pockets the difference.

goodlawproject.org/putins-megap...

What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses? Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right

As Hungary votes, would recommend this piece about how Viktor Orban has used public money to bankroll an international ultraconservative network - including Roger Scruton cafes and €10k a month for failed Reform candidate Matt Goodwin

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

Let’s imagine Ed Davey or Zack Polanski got £10,000 from a sanctioned Iranian conglomerate via a UK donor BBC/MSM would headline it, run special reports, demand an investigation, do interviews.. it’d be a media Frenzy❗️

Yet Farage gets £200,000 from them and it’s shhh🤫not a peep

Let that sink in..🤦🏼‍♂️

“Never trust a Tory” says Farage which given 6 out of 8 Reform MPs were Tory until they “defecated” to Reform & he & Tice were Tories is weapons grade hypocrisy

But that is on brand for him lying as he breathes

Trouble is the clinically hard of thinking who follow Reform swallow all his BS 🤦🏼‍♂️

The Pope gets it. Rapidly increasing inequality is destroying society - and it's a moral issue as well as an issue of justice.

#TaxJustice

Two days before Hungary’s election, Trump pledges to buy votes for Viktor Orban with US taxpayer dollars.

🔴 You warned us President
Harris. You tried 🩵💙👇🏽💙🩵