Austria
The Austrian left-winger taking on Europe’s orthodoxies
Faika El-Nagashi has bravely challenged her own political tribe on sex and gender
Surprising reds from an old empire
Austria’s reds are rich in flavour, if not always heritage
The uneasy aftermath of the Austrian elections
Will the Austrian establishment close ranks against the Freedom Party?
Revolutionaries in the palace
Austria-Hungary’s last empress is inducted into the cult of Diana and Meghan
Rebuilding a monarchy and a nation
Austrian lessons for the reign of Charles III
England has left Covid behind
But other countries are not so lucky
Government against the governed
Austria has already decided on barring the unvaccinated, partially vaccinated or immune from participating in normal life
Penalties for the unvaccinated
The Austrian government is demanding a lot from an already mostly acquiescent population
The Austrian solution
Mandating vaccination by criminal sanction may sound draconian, but then again Austria has historic form for this sort of thing
Vienna is becoming much like every other European capital
“Vienna is different” is the city’s proud motto, but sadly, Vienna is much like every other European city
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
No, the King has not converted
A bizarre conspiracy theory
that Charles III is a Muslim is
easily shown to be false
Critical briefing: the Chişinău Declaration
Why the Chişinău Declaration is more of a symbolic gesture than a chance for real reform
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
The government must curb its appetite for junk policy
The “junk food advertising ban” is indigestible nonsense
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Most of the world thinks differently to us
Universalism is based on irrational ideas about human nature
Where hatreds meet
Antisemitism and misogyny have a lot in common
Once more unto the speeches
There was a great deal of talking today, but how much of it meant anything?