Rory McIlroy wins the Golf Masters, Peter Magyar wipes the floor with Viktor Orban in the Hungarian General Election and Pedro Sanchez proves yet again that he is a true statesman in these troubled times.
What a weekend!
Rory McIlroy
The Northern Irish golfer won the Masters Grand Slam Golf tournament at Augusta (Georgia) on Sunday night by one shot from Scottie Sheffler (USA) and two from "fellow Brits" Justin Rose and Tyrrell Hatton and a couple of Americans.
McIlroy was the defending champion from 2025, so he now joins the ranks of only three other golfers to have won back-to-back Masters: Jack Nicklaus (1965 and 1966), Sir Nick Faldo (1989 and 1990) and Tiger Woods (2001 and 2002).
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McIlroy also has a career grand slam of the four majors, joining five other men: Nicklaus, Woods, Ben Hogan (USA), Gary Player (S.Afr), and Gene Sarazen (USA).
As of the 2026 Masters Tournament, 475 majors have been played. A total of 234 different men have won majors and, of these, 89 have won at least two.
Rory McIlroy is 36 years old.
Peter Magyar
The leader of the moderate right-wing party Tisza has defeated Viktor Orban of the Fidesz party in a landslide victory.
With almost all ballots counted Tisza stands at 138 seats, Orban 88 and a third candidate just five.
This represents more than the two-thirds majority Magyar needs to undo Orban's constitutional overhaul and combat corruption.
"Together, we liberated Hungary and got rid of the Orbán regime,” Magyar told cheering thousands of supporters along the embankment by the river Danube.
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"In the history of democratic Hungary, this many people have never voted before, and no single party has ever received such a strong mandate as Tisza.”
Reacting to the result, European Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen posted on X: “Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. Together, we are stronger. A country returns to its European path. The Union grows stronger.”
Peter Magyar is 45 years old.
Pedro Sanchez
The Spanish prime minister has had the cheek to stand up for what he thinks as right with regard to Iran ("¡No a la guerra!").
According to the increasingly unhinged president of the USA, Donald J Trump, this is a traitorous act.
It's been a bad weekend for The Orange One, what with the talks between the USA and Iran in Pakistan failing to reach an accord and losing a staunch ally in Hungary's Orban.
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Sanchez, under fire at home and criticised by many in Europe and NATO for not backing several other countries, including France, Germany and the UK, in their efforts to defend the border with Russia, stands tall in the European arena, if not most of the Western world.
A bulwark of common sense against the political Right.
Pedro Sanchez is 54 years old.
Links of interest
Pedro's Sense of "Duty"
Top 10 "Bad Guys" of 2025
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