• Eurovision Under Militarised Siege in Vienna
    May 18 2026

    The seventieth Eurovision Song Contest took place in Vienna under one of the largest security operations modern Austria has mounted: a robot dog, an FBI cyber task force on call from New York, and a 1.5-kilometre no-fly ring drawn around three points in the city. We report from inside the perimeter.


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    20 mins
  • Neo-Nazism and the Self-Determination Act
    Apr 16 2026

    When a German neo-Nazi changed his legal gender to dodge prison, he handed the European far right a weapon no amount of speechmaking could have produced. His arrest at a Czech border village last week has placed the consequences before a judge in Plzeň — and an entire trans community before a gathering backlash.

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    19 mins
  • The Machinery of Silence: Hungary’s 2026 Election Crisis
    Apr 8 2026

    On 12 April, Hungarians go to the polls in what Politico has called the EU’s most consequential election of 2026: a vote that will determine whether Viktor Orbán’s sixteen-year experiment in dismantling democracy, capturing the media and criminalising queer visibility inside a European Union member state can be reversed by a ballot.


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    19 mins
  • Rob Jetten and Donald Trump: The Queer and the Beast
    Mar 22 2026

    The EU is looking to the Prime Minister of the Netherlands as a new continental leader. Donald Trump’s war is made for television. Rob Jetten’s Europe is not. That is the point.

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    21 mins
  • Queer Gen Z and the Copy Machine: While We Were Scrolling, AI Moved On Without Us
    Mar 20 2026

    AI agents are rewriting the rules of knowledge work. Most queer Europeans have not been told the rules have changed.

    In today's podcast, we discuss the digital skills of queer GenZ.

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    24 mins
  • Do not bomb Iran’s “gaytollah” in my name
    Mar 18 2026

    In today's podcast, we cut through the week's noise with incisive analysis exclusively for our subscribers, plus essential recommendations you won't want to miss.

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    22 mins
  • Chancellor Merz is nostalgic for an unattainable past
    Mar 11 2026

    In today's podcast we cuts through the week's noise with incisive analysis exclusively for our subscribers, plus essential recommendations you won't want to miss.

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    19 mins
  • Anthropic Said No to the War Machine
    Mar 5 2026

    In today's podcast, our host discusses the Anthropic case and the war the Trump administration started against the AI company.

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    20 mins