Opposition parties start talks on forming a government.

Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has stepped down. He has proposed Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg as his replacement.

As the National Trust is essentially a conservative organisation, so too its membership largely comprises people with conservative instincts, that is, people who like long walks in the countryside, historic buildings, and fine art. It is astonishing, therefore, that the National Trust chose to go in a direction that, if continued, would lead to its suicide.