Jane @janeynorth.bsky.social

Londoner interested in politics and reproductive justice. Fan of #QuietRiot

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk
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This is not just a victory for the people of Hungary, but for all those around the world who believe in international cooperation, democracy and the rule of law 🇭🇺
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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu
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On the train back home from Warsaw right now, and two Ukrainian women across the carriage from me are absolutely delighted about the Hungarian election result. One is in tears and the other is laughing. This is what it means to get rid of the cynical, kleptocratic prick.
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I'm going to bed. When do you get to go to bed on a good news high these days? Time to make sure I'm tucked up before Trump tries to send the US Navy up the Danube.
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Magyar calls on the figurehead head of state Tamás Sulyok, as well as all high justice officials and other high officials appointed by Fidesz to resign immediately or they will be removed by the new government.

He also announces a constitutional reform and that Hungary is joining EPPO.
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X this evening vs Bsky this evening
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social
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Spare a thought for Tim Montgomerie whose dreams of a special relationship with Orban are dashed. Gone is the 'interesting early thinking on the limits of liberalism'. He'll have to carry the torch himself. www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/tim-montgomerie-viktor-orban-hungary-brexit
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Interesting from Magyar/Tisza - plans to Introduce a 1% annual (marginal) wealth tax on assets above 1 billion forints (about £2.3 million). Pretty significant coming from a centre-right party. It's pitched as a billionaire wealth tax to cut taxes for lower earners and an issue of fairness.
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Orban had conceded.

It’s a bad day for populism.

Farage, Goodwin and Orr were all knee deep.
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I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap.

I can’t believe it 😭
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Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.

He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.

The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.
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This result was inevitable once Viktor Orbán went woke, by Matt Goodwin for The Free Press.
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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.
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Ma este Európa szíve erősebben dobog Magyarországon.

Europe’s heart is beating stronger in Hungary tonight.
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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
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So, incredibly happy for, and proud of, Hungary. And looks like PM might even manage 2/3rds needed for a deep constitutional undoing of Orban's feckery.

If EU has *any* sense whatsoever, it will THROW MONEY at Magyar, like a drunk yuppie at a stripper.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2d8zw2d3rkt
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Was it only four days ago The Telegraph comment pages were gazing into their tea leaves ?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Orban figured out you could buy political influence by paying right wing intellectuals. Not just in the US, he also cultivated the UK. From @petergeoghegan.bsky.social democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social
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A number of British academics and ex-academics just lost a potential pay cheque.
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Looks like it’s gonna be a very bad night for Matt Goodwin, James Orr and the Spiked crew….
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I'm blockading the strait of Hormuz and so's my wife
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C’mon you Hungarians! ✊
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One of my cartoons in Monday's Metro
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Orban: “Too many people are voting” — the plaint of kleptocratic vote suppressors and gerrymanderers the world over…

And yes I am looking at you GOP
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The HHS Plan Targeting Birth Control, IVF, and Porn
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/p/the-hhs-plan-targeting-birth-control?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Cartoon by Gábor Pápai, a well-known Hungarian political cartoonist.
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OMG 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️. Now even the repugnant Nigel Farage is harping on about Judeo-Christian values. He is just told what to do from American far-right lobbyists.
The British don’t even go to church anymore. These Judeo-Christian values is now just far-right rhetoric. It’s purely
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BYTESEU @byteseu.bsky.social
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Prague is and will be feminist: thousands of supporters of women’s rights outnumbered their opponents from the anti-abortion March for Life

www.byteseu.com/1933966/

✊ ♀️🏳️‍🌈 Freedom for women, freedom for the queer, death to klerofascism! …
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Master of shadows: Caravaggio, influential Italian Baroque artist, (1571-1610), used chiaroscuro to heighten dramatic tension.
Supper at Emmaus, 1601, National Gallery London
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