Oliver Stanton

That time of year in Scotland when you can tell how few houses are actually occupied in your locality.

A week from tomorrow is the beginning of the END of the Orange Atrocity! 🍊 💩 #voteVoteVOTE

Good evening!

Flavio Bolsonaro crying after losing the election. I hope that cheered up your day.

Yes 👏 Finally, a Prime Minister being honest about the damage Brexit has done - and the only real option on the table. EU membership. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e36kyk1qx5o

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All we need to know. Infantino says he is backed by 'vast majority' www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Last week, Hungary’s parliament voted to strip the anti-LGBTQ provisions out of Viktor Orbán’s 2021 child protection law, removing measures targeting gay and transgender people. https://bestforbritain.substack.com/s/weekend-wire

Reader, it doesn’t. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Meanwhile, former Hungarian Prime Minister hiding out in Paris.

Run nepo baby, run!

Our new Goulash newsletter is out! 🥘 Orbán’s daughter and son-in-law swap New York for London amid arrests in Budapest. Plus: Pegasus in Belgrade, spyware hidden in online ads, Europe’s €1.4bn Palantir habit, and a Kremlin-cooked think tank. VSquare.org

US tax dollars via NASA, to bail out Tesla. Why is Elon Musk plotting a mega-merger of SpaceX and Tesla? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pass the sick bag - about as cringeworthy as it can get from Steve Witkoff, in a new low for the US Government.

🚨👮 BREAKING: György Matolcsy, Viktor Orbán’s former economy minister, architect of “Orbanomics” and Hungary’s “Eastern Opening,” has been detained. The former central bank governor is suspected of economic fraud causing major losses and using a forged document, his lawyer says.

Can you see it yet?

Good advice. Click 'user privacy notice' and then section 9 AI training. 'opt out'

Done.

Publicly-funded, privately-owned, bus company cutting services willy-nilly, says what? McGill's accuse Swinney of behaving like dictator over bus plans www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Meta shut out Indivisible from Instagram on the No Kings Day meant to rally people to vote.

Brexit was a gift to Putin, and those who sold it are stooges, either intentionally or otherwise, to Russia's attempts to destabilise Europe.

Adobe, hi. Just checking in to see if you’re ok, and how that ai bandwagon you jumped on early is going for you?

It's legitimate for the EU, the UK, Canada and others to support their Ukrainian ally. If Musk is going to (in effect) assist Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's allies should sanction Starlink, X and Tesla. At the very least, governments (and people) should stop using his fucking site already.

🔎 Orbán’s government poured €12 million into Slovakia’s Ma7 media group, benefiting a firm run by former MKP (Hungarian minority party) officials and a printing house linked to his ally Oszkár Világi. Experts say distribution fees may have been inflated.

Hungarian Ad Agency Got Millions From Firm Owned by Orban’s Billionaire Friend

Argyll and Bute Council struggling to fill jobs. Can only think it’s a combination of too much focus on the tourist industry, low paid roles, elderly population, crap websites, lack of residents (see tourist industry) etc. #TeamABC

They really are a work-shy bunch of racists. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rothesay getting a new bar and café. Where there is already two cafés that are struggling. www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/news/2026/oc...

Donnie doesn’t want to go to prison.

The ICC is the cornerstone of the international criminal justice system. It prosecutes individuals responsible for the most serious crimes under international law.

💥Fresh Goulash newsletter is out with new stories and scoops from Central Europe, including Hungary’s expulsion of Russian diplomats and Orbán’s oligarchs waving a white flag. Investigative journalism from the region, all in one place. Read and subscribe👇

Two-tier policing. Eleven arrested at pro-Palestinian marches in London www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In our obsession with Data Centres we’ve forgotten the carbon, water and power cost of emails. Perhaps retailer sellers could start by cutting down on the “your parcel is due…” emails. 12 is the record at present.

“So, Andrea Várkonyi, what first attracted you to multi-millionaire Mészáros Lőrinc?” #Mészáros

First The Inver Restaurant up for sale and now this. Michelin Star restaurant on Skye to shut after 10 years in business www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nothing classic or old school about her policies. I'm a classic old school Conservative, says Kemi Badenoch www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Massive fraud by the previous administration in Hungary coming out into the light. Industrial scale. Support these guys who maintained their independence throughout the last years despite intimidation etc. All available in English www.direkt36.hu/en/

While the Swedes and Finns celebrate with cinnamon buns, we do Hungarian scones. #pogácsa

What he says.

We may have Traitors, but in Hungary everyone is watching the arrests of politicians and senior businessmen in real time, on their newly liberated news channels. Now that’s a watch party.

FIFA would like a word.

Make it stop.

💥"Ukraine and Hungary reached an agreement (...) There was a Zoom call last night. The minister, the deputy prime minister, all the factions were there. We talked literally until late at night. There is a strong chance that on Monday we will pass the draft law." @gonzotusk.bsky.social

Ex-Hungarian Minister Detained in $53 Million Graft Probe www.occrp.org/en/news/ex-h...

Argyll and Bute, where you can drive for 5 hours and still not leave.

Make it stop.