Over time, any organization loses a sense of its original mission and becomes a self-licking ice cream cone. I love that image, which was invented by General Pete Worden, who was describing NASA. What Worden was saying was simple: over time, organizations mutate into things which exist solely to preserve themselves, rather than to accomplish...
Austria’s former chancellor Sebastian Kurz has won his appeal against a conviction for giving false testimony to a parliamentary committee. The court’s ruling overturns last year’s judgement and eight-month suspended prison sentence for the former political star. Once hailed a wunderkind of Europe’s conservatives, the 38-year-old resigned as chancellor in 2021 and quit politics amid...
