Now that we know that they make more from AdSense than the biggest commercial TV channel in a year it is time to look at online health gurus and what motivates them. (Spoiler: it is not the goodness of their hearts) Continue reading
Category Archives: Commentary
CBDC is dangerous for free societies
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) make it possible for the government to see and control your wallet all the time. That is why they want it. Continue reading
How Orbán navigates between Putin and the upcoming elections
It is impossible to tell what he stands for now but it is definitely disgraceful. Continue reading
The race is on to publish the first poll results about the war – and the results are even more unreliable than usual
Whoever delivers the first results about Hungarians’ supposed opinion about Putin’s war on Ukraine will influence public opinion more than it surveys it. This is why it is so worrying that the first polls are even more unreliable than usual. Continue reading
For students on plagiarism: If you can google it, I can google it
By the time plagiarism software was invented students forgot how to use a library. Google is now enough to catch most of them. Continue reading
Orbán’s about-face in Europe and continued Putinism at home
It doesn’t seem at all convincing that Orbán finally found the democrat inside. Continue reading
Putin’s interests are not the same as Russia’s and an expert who fails to make that distinction is not much of an expert
If you choose your analytical tools poorly, your conclusions will be wrong. Continue reading
Is it really wrong to out homophobic politicians?
There is a type of double standard that really bothers me. Continue reading
Gay panic at ‘Death in Venice’
A few weeks before the pandemic began the Croatian National Ballet visited Budapest. Continue reading
Understanding privilege and prejudice through bird feeding
What is nasty opportunism from a pigeon is regarded as cleverness from a songbird. Continue reading
Meanwhile in Budapest 