Ein großer Fehler, der zeigt, dass der Wert deutsch-polnischen Zusammenrückens immer noch nicht erkannt wird. Als könnte man den Erfolg von einem Projekt wie dem Kulturzug in Euro und Złoty messen. www.rbb24.de/content/rbb/...

Péter Magyar gives the world a tour of the luxurious and top secret propaganda ministry built at great public expense. The irony is that Pete is now so much better at political comms than Fidesz hvg.hu/itthon/20260...

Last week I left my bag in a black cab. Assumed it was lost forever. Moments before I passed through security at Heathrow, the cabby—who’d identified me by my books—contacted me on Twitter. An hour later, bag in hand, I was ready to fly. He asked for a poem. Here you are, Gary Vidgeon!

This latest video from Hungary shows in excruciating detail what was basically a feudal system of rewards and punishments in Fidesz-run villages. I assume the subtitles sort of work www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNnn...

Includes numerous folding techniques

Political scientists' accounts of how they do 'historical' research will always remind me of Monty Python's How to Play the Flute sketch www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1sM...

Will be fascinating to read forthcoming Hungarian receptions of Biedermann's much-lauded saga of C20 Hungarian history, now out in Hungarian translation. I'm over halfway through and in two minds. Bodice ripping and wrong Holocaust chronology 3/10. The rest is fun konyvesmagazin.hu/kritika/neli...

A charming #Egyptian figurine of a hedgehog, made of faience, dating ca 1900 BC, from Thebes, #Egypt. The Egyptians associated hedgehogs with rebirth. On display at Neues Museum Berlin 📷 me 🏺

For the day that’s in it, one of the scariest photos I know. Слонова нога or the Elephant’s Foot, which formed during the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, a deadly mass made of molten concrete, sand, steel, uranium, and zirconium. Image by Valentin Obodzinsky.

"Punk had a genuine impact on the faraway towns like Northampton, where Bauhaus emerged. It was a new filter and turned us into dancing medieval jesters or flamboyant second-hand clothes-wearing punchbags for the retro thugs and Tetley Bittermen to assault."

So where are all the Reform supporters then? Zero visible support in Ceredigion and North Pembs, both of which are plastered with Plaid posters. Perhaps Reform voters are ashamed round these parts, it's unlikely they are just being polite

The new minister for social and family affairs is a lawyer, European parakarate champion and the world's first aikido master who's also developed a self-defense system for the visually impaired. Hero! hvg.hu/360/20260424...

Thank heavens for the hardworking fanboys and also Private Eye for keeping tabs on them

Earth day, 22 April (tomorrow) Live in the UK on @resonancefm.bsky.social - where else?

Vitsche Talks sind zurück 🔥 Gemeinsam mit Péter Adamik (Politischer Aktivist, Freie Ungarische Botschaft) analysieren wir die aktuelle Situation und diskutieren mögliche Szenarien für Europa. Anmeldung erforderlich: forms.gle/vhHyYwBJP7G8... Die Plätze sind begrenzt.

🔊 Bracewell Travelling Scholarship! The scholarship is funded by a gift from SSEES Emeritus Professor of History Wendy Bracewell, whose research examines South Slav history, and travel writing in eastern Europe. 🗓️ Deadline: 30 April ➡️ Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

"What happened in Hungary suggests that large groups of people still think that there is no proven alternative to autocracy other than the liberal democracy Orbán had supposedly buried." by István Rév www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/fall...

Looking at Tisza's sweeping victory in Hungary, we can gain insights into how competitive autocracies can be defeated. My non-comprehensive take for @gmfus.bsky.social about Péter Magyar's electoral strategy. 🔗 www.gmfus.org/news/magyar-...

Two new Hungarian inventions just dropped: joyscrolling and Schadenfreudescrolling (öröm- and káröröm respectively).

"Coffin for Head of State" was released in 1981, 3 years after the defenestration and tragic death of Fela’s mother, Funmilayo Kuti. In memory of his mother, the “Black President” and his family deposited a coffin in front of the HQ of the military government. pan-african-music.com/en/felas-sto...

Orban was so busy buying himself a global stage he didn't realise the platform he was actually standing on was crumbling beneath his feeet, I mused www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

*russkies So glad that Fidesz's attempted decimation of the 1956 legacy didn't actually work out that well

Tiny coffin for Orbán, Rákóczi square, Budapest 8th district, 12 April 2026

За перемога!!!!

Hungary’s turnout is BRUTAL: 37.98% by 11am (2022: 22.77%), pointing to 75–80% or more overall. In such a scenario, Orbán’s chances look slim, and it’s unlikely any party beyond Fidesz and Péter Magyar’s Tisza clears the 5% threshold. Follow me for more #HungaryElection updates.

Top recommendation for fact-checking, documentation and analysis of disinformation around the Hungarian election campaign. Lakmusz.hu also provide summaries in English

Take that Grok

Great work hooking up all the MCC funded goons, Brexit cranks and ex-Marxist attention seekers. Would only be visually improved by replacing straight lines with links of sausages

There aren't many jobs in the archive sector, but there are a lot of people studying to become archivists. This has led to the development of the combination Archivist/Ronin, a wandering historian bound to no daimyo or record office

Reading the hvg coverage of Miss Maybelline’s Budapest rodeo and it seems zero mention of Ukraine. Funny that. Riding two horses with one butt not as easy as it seems hvg.hu/itthon/20260...

The fastest and the greatest!

Guess the year of the IPI Report lede: Newspapers risk becoming "lifeless tools in the hands of a demagogue" unless editorial methods are revised to handle "the big lie" (answer is in here ipi.shorthandstories.com/IPIarchive/i...)

A woman and her house in Tehran Photo credit: Maryam Saeedpoor

Awesome view from Artemis II this morning.

Exciting PhD opportunity coming up

Pysanky, the Ukrainian art of egg decorating. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/p... This book is from 1968 and you can find it in full here

April Fool's? After pondering it a bit, I think I hope not. Laibach announce that Melania Trump has finally invited the group to perform at the White House on 4 July

The Hungarian Kim Philby! Will he end his days drunk in a suburban Moscow flat, talking about how great he was vsquare.org/kremlin-hotl...

Thank you @vicderbyshire.bsky.social for putting the survivors front and centre

"You might think, given the subject, that the ... podcast bros would have invited on a woman or two... It was women – Julie K. Brown, Tina Brown, Vicky Ward, Tara Palmeri – who broke and pursued the story. Yet [the bros] waded in and manfully explained Epstein to me." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

#MedievalSky I received a very important announcement today. Feminae, the bibliographical database on medieval women created and run by Margaret Schaus for the past couple of decades, is going offline as of 1 April. Download as much as you can ASAP: inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/Feminae/Adva...

Incredibly useful - how to run searches on Google to avoid all the slop. cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

thinking about the medieval cat door in Exeter cathedral again

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

A perfectly formed digital archive of Gunta Stölzl's life and works. I love her Bauhaus Dessau photo ID card on which (I presume) she scribbled out 'student' and replaced it with 'Master' www.guntastolzl.org

#pointlessdetail Why does Pete Headset pronounce the word 'without' as if it rhymes with pith out? It doesn't. All of them sound like machine translations of English fed through autotune