In absolutely chef’s kiss timing, Matthew Goodwin is due to speak at Orbán’s in-house propaganda group MCC *today* Badloss strikes again.

Mathias Corvinus Collegium -which Orban used to fund Christian Right across Europe - has endowment worth *1% of Hungary’s GDP* This money has gone to Matt Goodwin, Frank Furedi, a Roger Scruton foundation run by Michael Gove + James Orr Magyar needs 2/3rd of seats to unpick this. Be huge if he can

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result: Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

This is soooooo embarrassing for Vance: - endorses Orban: landslide defeat - meets the Pope: Pope dies 2 days later

Very Ukrainian accent: "Oh Mr Vance, is it hard to negotiate peace? Is it difficult to come to a deal when both sides have fundamentally irreconcilable positions on key issues? Does not being able to trust your counterparty make things tricky? Why do you hate peace, Mr Vance?"

My son is 11,autistic, and obsessed with Minecraft. I manage a team of 4 Database Engineers. At some point I started to talk to them like how the parenting courses told me to communicate with my son and the team morale and overall performance has shot up so much we got an award

"Matthew Goodwin has been paid a salary of up to €10,000 a month [from Hungary's state-funded MCC], according to leaked documents obtained by Hungarian investigative journalists Direkt36 and reported by the Good Law Project" That could all end if Orbán loses... open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

"Open the fuckin' Strait you bastards" And they say he doesn't have a plan. #donaldtrump

Trump needs a lot of encouragement to do a poo.

Good to see no Reform on #kuenssberg this morning when talking about the situation on the Middle East. An unserious party with nothing to offer on serious subjects.

I am hopeful that the war in Iran will bring needed democratic change to … the United States of America.

I’ll just leave this here…

For over a year, polls have put Hungary’s opposition party ahead of Viktor Orban’s. But a big lead in the polls is no guarantee of an election victory

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A List of Complaints from 1926 🧵

Finally moved my 'always on' pedals to the back. Seems obvious but ridiculously it took me some time to make the change. No more accidentally kicking in the tuner (and killing the sound mid-gig 😬) when going for a bit of overdrive as they used to be right next to each other.

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

So maybe we shouldn't have left the EU .. I mean, kept the burger and indeed, the napkin. I don't think this quite conveys the message that was hoped for.

Years ago a band I play in, Loopy, put out an album called 'This Year's Evel Knievel'. I designed the cover (well, doctored an existing poster). Perhaps against my better judgement I've put that cover on my Telecaster as the band & album are rather important to me. open.spotify.com/album/27Tc5b...

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

Welcome to 2026. Where the world order as we knew it seems to be over. What next? Taiwan? Greenland? Balkans? The U.K. must double down on its relationship with the EU. For it is Europe alone that is now leader of the free world.

Pretty sure FIFA will want that Peace Prize back now.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Tremendous episode, thanks @aiannucci.bsky.social and Stewart Lee. Good to address the dog-whistle expression of 'men of fighting age' ... or is it cooking age or voting age or buying powerful solvents age etc Bloody funny.

A thread 🧵 of _terrible_ design decisions for the internal APIs of the two Italian high speed train operators, Italo and Trenitalia. Hardcoded passwords, terrible translations, spelling mistakes, xml in json (but utf8 encoded and transmitted as an array of numbers), it's all here. Enjoy!

Not a cult.

This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.

Why can't immigrants who come to the UK integrate as well as this?

The enemy within

Come on Budapest!

If I didn’t see this myself on Truth Social I’d assume it was some phishing site

Hate Crosscountry trains with their stupid, comedy (actually not funny), kid-size flip-down tables! Currently no one sat next to me so this is the only way I can work.

I've lost count of the number of times I've posted this brilliant, hilarious love letter to one of the great unsung bands of all time. The perfect pastiche/homage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vVJ...

You wouldn’t know these great legal scholars. They go to another school.* *not a law school

Brilliant as always. Stick around for the (portmanteau alert) urinanity at the end.

Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments: One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.

If you don’t like the BBC, I suggest that you go to America and watch their TV for a day. It gives you a migraine. The BBC also keeps the standards of the other outlets relatively high. If you think we watch shit now, imagine it with no BBC. And they actually care about drama, children’s, factual.

I DEMAND Panorama IMMEDIATELY produces a documentary showing Kamala Harris not instigating a violent riot, not sexually assaulting anyone, or getting fined for denying it, or being found guilty of business fraud, or f*cking a porn star AND accepting the result of an election. You know. For balance.

‘At one point during cross examination, the prosecutor Peter Wright KC called Barton’s explanations “nonsense”, to which the former player responded by asking: “Are you calling me a nonce?” Wright in turn responded: “No, nonsense.”’

He should take it up with his MP

Looking forward to some 'Moments of Fright'. #insidenumber9

Racist Reform MP complaining about insufficient white faces in advertising. Also ... Thick as shit Reform MP not considering ad agencies ruthlessly study what will and won't sell.

Awwww come on @nytimes.com, what is this anti-pirate bias.

MSNBC Live coverage: @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social interviewing a pink unicorn on live television is giving me life. #NoKings

Ok @timminchin.bsky.social, this looks like niche clickbait. Update: I clicked. Very funny.

Binged the whole of The Franchise on a flight back from Toronto. Bloody funny stuff produced by @aiannucci.bsky.social and Sam Mendes. Criminally overlooked for a second series.

This is another damning picture of Kennedy refusing to meet with senior scientists and get advice about infections or vaccines whilst he spreads disinformation #healthpolicy

I did the English voice-over for this. Grim but important stuff.