The Austrians have got this right and the Dutch have got it wrong. End of. Indeed, the main problem with the Austrian rules is they don't go far enough. It won't hurt the anti-vaxxers enoug… (View Post)

Except that the NHS is collapsing, which makes the notion that it's imploding under the weight of Covid very easy to sell, even though Covid is just the trigger rather than the root cause. The r… (View Post)

From the Graun: The Netherlands will become the first western European country to impose a partial lockdown since the summer, Dutch media have reported, introducing strict new measures from Saturday … (View Post)

A lot of people who know how to read numbers. This apparently now includes the organisers of the Christmas markets, most of which have already been cancelled, and prominent scientists who are startin… (View Post)

There isn't one. Almost all of the shouting matches over trans inclusion concern natal women, their rights and their exclusive spaces, because at root they're about power relationships. In … (View Post)