No, universities didn’t become private. They have just lost their autonomy to Orbán. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Corruption is a feature, not a bug
If the Suez Canal was in Hungary
I was looking at the famous picture of the little excavator pecking away at the base of a city-sized vessel and couldn’t help but wonder how the scene would have looked like if the accident took place in the US. Continue reading
Holding Orbán accountable
Observe submissive authoritarian minds in action. Continue reading
A monument to past subservience is somehow the perfect way to celebrate present day submission
Nothing says self respect like erecting a statue to the feudal owner of your ancestors on the last dime of your village. Maybe perhaps erecting the statue on debt. Continue reading
After Orbán
“I feel like I win when I lose” Continue reading
Covid emergency spending: Sport, sport, church, sport, church, sport, sport…
…and a few radically overpriced respirators from friendly companies Continue reading
Emergency powers, changing constitution, rewriting the election law… and a little bit of Covid
The timing is the most interesting Continue reading
Make Corruption Noble Again
Today’s gangster is tomorrow’s aristocrat, mkay? Continue reading
If we can’t punish politicians for accepting bribes – can we at least ban from tenders the businessmen who bribe them? Please?
A proposal that really just serves to show how helpless we are Continue reading
Hungarian corruption 10x EU average
12x more corrupt than Romania, 8x more than Slovakia Continue reading
