At this year’s series, bubbles will mean not Veuve Clicquot but protocols designed to ensure that the ball is all anyone catches Down Under

The Austrian government is demanding a lot from an already mostly acquiescent population

Taken together, it’s not the kind of music you want to hear in isolation

Mandating vaccination by criminal sanction may sound draconian, but then again Austria has historic form for this sort of thing

Stripping a people of its identity and history is the prerequisite to control

Overcrowded lectures are bad enough, but Zoom and masks are incompatible with learning

Do rising alcohol prices indicate the good times really are over — or could they harbour our freedom?

The meek may inherit the Earth, but not yet

In the rush to blame tech companies, we forget the ultimate threat to free speech comes from the state

I am shocked, shocked to find that Covid is going on in here