‘“Personnel is policy,” and right now the liberal managers are running the show, even with the New Right in power.’
‘Football would not be the world’s number one sport if it did not carry that unique emotional charge. And often, it is heartbreakingly unfair—for us Hungarians, perhaps more often than for others…We may indeed have to forget about the World Cup for generations…And we will continue to believe that one day Hungary will return to where it belongs: among the greatest football nations of history.’
If Mrs Sikorski wants to publish an article blasting the Hungarian government, she should mention she is married to Poland’s foreign minister.
‘Pokrovsk’s encirclement emerged from these dynamics not as a sudden catastrophe but as the predictable outcome of long-developing trends.’
Under what conditions can the Ukrainian war end? Can there be a military confrontation between the US and China over Taiwan? What could be the future of the Gaza Strip? We asked for an analysis from the renowned scholar of international relations on the three major geopolitical conflict areas: the Ukrainian war, the Middle East, and the Pacific Region conflict.
‘Why are there still some people…who stand in defence of the BBC? Because, in their view, the BBC…forms part of the institutional network they can appeal to for condemnation and a justification for contempt of Trump even after—despite their insistence that it could not happen—the people of the United States chose to vote him into power again.’
‘The paradox, if not hypocrisy, on the part of the EU is that its so-called enforcement of the rule of law or founding values, whatever those are supposed to be, is in direct violation of the principle of subsidiarity…’
‘Orbán’s multi-vector commercial policy, which balances energy cooperation with Russia, selective investment from China, and strategic alignment with Washington, allows Hungary to act as a stabilizing bridge between great powers.’
‘Spain’s cultural diplomacy in Chengdú and Beijing may win headlines, but its deeper strength lies in its ties to the Ibero-American world.’
‘The Russians copied the engine and implemented it into a very good aerial design that became the MiG-15 fighter jet.’
Viktor Orbán’s meeting with Donald Trump symbolized a deeper struggle for the soul of Western civilization. With Washington now backing Europe’s sovereignist governments, Hungary’s 2026 election has become more than a political contest—it is a referendum on whether Christianity, family, and nation can survive the globalist onslaught.
‘Attacks from the Dems are ultimately to be expected, with the cause secondary to the pure utility of attacking Europe’s most effective right-wing leader.’
‘What does democracy look like today?…We have become socially liberal, while the government has become more federalist and centralized.’
‘The Commission considered Ukraine’s support to be more important than the protests at the national and sectoral level in the Member States and therefore pushed through the amendment to the trade agreement…’
‘In this age of political polarization, the rise of AI has created a world where we are quickly losing the ability to know what is real.’
‘Ostpolitik became the means for the Church to engage the Warsaw Pact nation-states under the pontificates of Popes John XXIII and Paul VI.’
‘A trade offensive against China is not a dinner party either, even though Trump and his advisers seem to have believed it would be.’
‘This does not exactly gel with the idea that Trump is some Putin sycophant, does it?’
‘Violent crime has arrived in a country where it was exceedingly rare. Iceland is now even a contributor to the online migrant-crime genre.’
‘Our world has changed, the international order has transformed, and every actor is trying to adapt. With the end of unipolarity, the hegemony of liberal foreign policy also ended…Free trade has given way to protectionism; moralizing, value-centric diplomacy has given way to transactional realism. However, this recognition apparently eludes the European Union.’
‘The debut of a Korean hypersonic missile prototype was one of the exhibition’s highlights, placing Seoul into an elite club.’
‘It is deeply symbolic that the 43rd UNESCO General Conference is taking place in Uzbekistan—a nation that has played a pivotal role in fostering regional peace and dialogue.’
‘The OTS has consistently emphasized that membership or observer status is reserved for countries with cultural or ethnic ties to the Turkic world’
‘The fact of the matter is that the apocalyptic scenario Democrats warned of in case Donald Trump was re-elected never materialized. After some market turmoil caused by President Trump’s tariff frenzy in the spring, things smoothed out real quick. The Democrats found themselves in desperate need to manufacture a crisis just to get the voters’ attention.’
‘To speak the obvious about demographic transformation, public safety, or cultural integration is to provoke a moral tempest that sweeps aside all debate and casts every doubt into the abyss of social damnation. This is not mere rhetorical excess. It is the lived reality of German public discourse in 2025, where statistical facts about migration are treated as heresy…’
‘Leftist media outlets lie. They lie all the time. The problem for our friend Tommaso here is that the La Repubblica meeting—which was conducted in English—was recorded on video and later uploaded online by Hungarian parliamentarian Balázs Orbán.’
‘Tory MPs seem to fluctuate between a state of aporia and a state of delusion.’
What has changed in America since the murder of Charlie Kirk? What are the historical roots of political violence in the country? We discussed the political and social changes in America under Trump and the impact of Charlie Kirk’s murder with the right-wing influencer.
It frequently turns out FT’s reporting is questionable at best, complete nonsense at worst. Practically fanfiction, even.
‘Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon insisted “wealthy, privileged” people were responsible for the protest campaign, despite polling data indicating a disproportionate number of spoiled votes being cast in disadvantaged areas.’