Though despised in most Western European capitals, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán may be the man who has met the moment, argues Rod Dreher in The European Conservative. Engineering Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s upcoming face-to-face meeting in Budapest is “a diplomatic triumph” for Orbán, argues Dreher, one that might provide the catalyst to finally bring an end to Russia’s calamitous war on Ukraine.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
