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Ring! Ring! Mind Your Bling! (updated August 1st 2026)

Curteis jewellery replatingThe Tap Blog started twenty years ago. I had retired and gone to live in Manila. Being eight hours ahead gave me time to analyse the various newsfeeds and write something pertinent before the western world awoke. It was conventionally political writing, until 2009 when a reader sent in a comment suggesting I studied some videos and writings of Dr Stan Monteith of Radio Liberty in Monterrey Bay. This was 2009. Read more...


Question of the day: Was Magyar’s landslide victory a bluff orchestrated by Orbán?

  Source: https://blog.algora.com/2026/04/13/question-of-the-day-was-magyars-landslide-victory-a-bluff-orchestrated-by-orban via https://inpolitics.ro/intrebarea-zilei-a-fost-victoria-zdrobitoare-a-lui-magyar-o-cacealma-orchestrata-de-orban_1860090229.html (translated from Romanian) With the dust barely settled on the ballot boxes and a voter turnout of 79.5%, the highest in Hungary’s post-communist history, the historic victory of Péter Magyar and the Tisza party seems, at first glance, like an earthquake: the end of 16 years of absolute dominance by Viktor Orbán and Fidesz. But …

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