🔥This is an incredible result! A quick concession is of course in Hungary’s best interests. If Magyar also has a 2/3 majority (as looks likely) then he’ll have full control to remove Fidesz corruption. Finally- it’s a humiliation for Trump & Putin - and a boost for Ukraine.

"The ghosts of Valley Forge, Gettysburg, Normandy, AND a thousand smaller graves scattered across two and a half centuries are silent witnesses to what this country cost. They did not sacrifice so their descendants could watch the republic auctioned to the highest bidder beneath a waving flag."

Or we could make hope normal again. vote.greenparty.org.uk

A rare defeat for Putin in Western politics tonight. I suppose he can console himself with thoughts of Farage’s projected success next month.

Excellent news. I hope he'll now go to jail.

Some good news at last.

Day 2262 of #Brexit: ‘"Europe’s heart is beating stronger in Hungary tonight," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote on social media. "Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary".’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

Hurrah!

And the government has the 2/3 majority it needs to undo the Orbán era laws.

During the 2018 Hungarian election, I went to Hungary for the FT to write this. It was the year when Orbán ran a profoundly antisemitic campaign, with posters across the country presenting George Soros as the bogeyman boss behind the opposition. www.ft.com/content/ed90...

I can't quite express the joy of seeing Viktor Orbán, the man who took my grandparents' native land to the brink of dictatorship, concede power after 16 years of autocracy and corruption. This is personal.

Yup. The only reason Orban is accepting his defeat is that he knows that if he were to attempt to hold onto power by force, he'd wind up as a street ornament.

We already knew that Farage's Reform is filled with mega chancers & grifters. It is widely known that Richard Tice has aggressively avoided tax legally due. Now we find out his company failed to pay tax legally due. So much for public services & standards. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

🤡 The Brexit irony is extraordinary. Britain helped design a system to manage/control borders across Europe. Then we chose to leave, turning ourselves from insiders into third-country aliens. Now 🇬🇧 citizens are subject to very scrutiny Brexiters wanted to impose on others. Brexit lost control.

👍👍👍✅✅✅🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🎈🎈🎈🎶🎶🍾🍾🍾🥂🥂🥂 www.bbc.com/news/live/c2...

Anyone wondering why so many people beyond Hungary are celebrating this fabulous win? @liambyrnemp.bsky.social explains - and sets out lessons for defeating populists and corruption everywhere. open.substack.com/pub/liambyrn...

Always helpful Sunday Morning Wrap-Up of the last week from @joycewhitevance.bsky.social : so much going on, it's hard to keep track! open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

One day it will be the UK.

Ukraine is about to get an awful lot of European money. No more Cunt's Veto. A potential turning point in the battle against Russian imperialism.

State tv just started showing speeches of Magyar which throughout the campaign could only be seen on underground tv streaming on youtube

The real power belongs to the people. Congratulations to Hungarians. Many many beers ll be drunk tonight. So happy for them

This is as beautiful a thing as you'll see in all your life. Hope, after months of darkness.

youtu.be/utDs5oPVi8w?... I follow/subscribe to Sam Bright - he invariably says what I’m thinking - or what. Hope might be true

It’s so sweet to see hundreds of thousands of happy Hungarian voters flooding to the center of Budapest 👍🇪🇺

Ursula von der Leyen President of the European Commission👏

When Viktor Orbán changed Hungary's voting system - making it easier for the biggest party to win supermajorities with a minority of votes - it was understandably criticised as authoritarian. So why is it that in the UK we accept an even more disproportional system as the norm?

God bless the folks of Hungary

Orban owns the media. He controls the information environment. He rigged the electoral system to make defeat next-to impossible. The govt of the most powerful country on earth tried to bribe Hungarian voters in his favour. It didn't work.

All the worst cunts in the world - from journalism to politics, the Kermlin to the White House - are suffering tonight.

Orban is not conceding because he's honourable. He's conceding because his defeat is so comprehensive even he can't pretend he won.

Your regular reminder that the US had a pain-stakingly negotiated and workable deal with Iran when Trump came to power, but he tore it up. He's now desperately trying to secure a deal much worse than the one he set aside.

The Home Office' anti-immigration agenda is strangling growth across the economy. It prevents a closer relationship with Europe, deprives us of the workers we need and undermines universities. getting-out-of-the-hole.uk/labours-red-...

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 stamp duty on her flat, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should immediately resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he personally made £91,000 in excess payments by failing to pay the tax his company legally owed

'The temptation behind war is that it is the ultimate arbiter, a way of getting a desired outcome without the need for messy compromises. In the end, most wars demonstrate the limits of military power, especially when unsupported by a realistic political strategy' open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

Orban was the first in the modern populist wave, the prototype, and he operates now as a crucial international lynchpin. There's a reason the White House and the Kremlin are so desperate for him to win.

Brexit stripped Britons of the ability to easily work, live, study, or retire abroad, yet it was sold as a way to “take back control” and restore our freedom. But so far, all we’ve seen is a loss of it...

A Venezuelan-born family physician who had been caring for Americans with chronic illnesses in an area facing a doctor shortage was detained by Border Patrol agents in Texas late Monday. Dr. Veliz was named resident of the year in 2025 at UT Health, Rio Grande Valley. He had e... TAT: [Nationalism]

A U.S. citizen has been deported to Mexico despite telling arresting officers that he had proof of citizenship at home. According to Univision’s Lidia Terrazas, 25-year-old Denver-born Brian Morales was threatened with either deportation or prison time following a traffic stop... TAT: [Nationalism]

Trump again threatened Iran saying he is ready to use the U.S. military to resume strikes if peace talks in Pakistan are not successful. “We have a reset going. We’re loading up the ships with the best ammunition, the best weapons ever made — even better than what we did pr... TAT: [Foreign policy]

Trump promises mass pardons to staff before leaving office. In a recent meeting, the president said he would pardon those within 200 feet of the Oval Office, say people familiar with the remarks TAT: [Corruption | Undermining democracy]

Donald Trump threatens to close off the Strait of Hormuz — a crucial waterway that he has repeatedly told Iran must be reopened unconditionally. “Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships t... TAT: [Foreign policy]

For the second time in less than a week, a Venezuelan physician has been detained in South Texas as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. The latest doctor, Rubeliz Bolivar, who worked in a hospital emergency room in the Rio Grande Valley, was travelling to... TAT: [Nationalism]

No one says it better than @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

This is everything. With the super majority you can actually undo Fidesz' constitutional takeover.

This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York Island From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me. As I was walking that ribbon of highway I saw above me that endless skyway I saw below me that golden valley This land was . . .

And yeah, it's this piece, out this morning. "The federal government that serves us is being starved while the federal government that serves the Trump agenda and the oligarchy is glutting itself on taxpayer money...."

One of the ways news media often fail us is by giving us the microscopic rather than the telescopic view. Everything I mention in this essay is well-documented, but the dots are mostly not connected to make visible this death by a thousand cuts our country is undergoing.