A young Syrian national has been charged by German authorities with supporting a foreign terror group over a foiled plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna last August. Mohamed A, who is described as a juvenile and still at liberty, is accused of following the ideology of jihadist group Islamic State (IS) and...
Austria’s new Eurovision Song Contest winner JJ returned home on Sunday 18 May to a warm welcome at Vienna’s Schwechat Airport after his victory in Basel. Fans, family, and media gathered and cheered as JJ smiled and posed for selfies. The 24-year-old, who is a counter tenor, took the title at the competition with the...
This is going to be a quick little sprint through exercises in parliamentary democracy as we’ve come to know and abhor it here over the past couple of years. First, a quick touch on Canada, where the anointed and appointed liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney, the Davos-blessed replacement for twee former Prime Minister Justin ‘Fidelito’...
Well, it’s kind of a bummer that winged hussars are few and far between these days – at least the heroes on horseback are. I guess there are still plenty of feathered ones in drag shows. It’s hard to say if the Austrians are aware of what’s happened to their country in the ‘Holy CRAP,...