Day: November 24, 2021

Boris’s Winter of Content

Like any great performer, Boris knows his audience. So when, last month, it came to his first in-person speech at a Tory Party conference as leader—it is not surprising that we heard little about the challenges facing the UK. Instead, we were left smiling at jokes about lockdowns accounting for the fall in reported crime or, better still, about the return of beavers to the British countryside—“Build back beavers”—and enough alliteration to keep a poet happy for months. Here was Boris promising nothing except that it would all be alright.

Austrian Chancellor Blames Freedom Party for Mounting Vaccine Scepticism

Austrian Chancellor Blames Freedom Party for Mounting Vaccine Scepticism

Alexander Schallenberg accused the right-wing Freedom Party of fomenting vaccine scepticism in Austria.

November 24, 2021
Polish PM: Europe’s Dependence Will Increase With Nord Stream 2

Polish PM: Europe’s Dependence Will Increase With Nord Stream 2

Russian influence on the EU will expand, Mateusz Morawiecki said.

November 24, 2021
Boris’s Winter of Content

Boris’s Winter of Content

Like any great performer, Boris knows his audience. So when, last month, it came to his first in-person speech at a Tory Party conference as leader—it is not surprising that we heard little about the challenges facing the UK. Instead, we were left smiling at jokes about lockdowns accounting for the fall in reported crime or, better still, about the return of beavers to the British countryside—“Build back beavers”—and enough alliteration to keep a poet happy for months. Here was Boris promising nothing except that it would all be alright.

November 24, 2021