Sadly only virtual, but not sadly at all given the comprehensiveness of Philosophy, Lit, Etc.'s tour of present day Viennese cafe society. There's enough to whet your appetite - for belletristik as much as your desire for Einspanner und Guglhupf mit...

And here I am reneging on my deal with Vienna. The second episode of Matt Frei's captivating Berlin series concentrated on the city's architecture and the way in which buildings are contested, vaunted, vehemently disliked and loved in equal measure....

Having pursued an obsession about Berlin for the past couple of years, resulting in three trips and the purchasing of many books and films about this city of cities, I feel I'm pulled southwards to VIENNA. Vienna has always been in my imagination,...

After some stylistic tweaking, the previous two posts could be merged to form one debate. As I argued sarcastically in the last post, the passing of the hate crimes legislation with the freedom of speech clause intact effectively allows intolerance to...

Go on, be intolerant. Now that the House of Lords has defeated Labour's progressive work on equality legislation, retaining the freedom of expression bit of the incitement to hatred laws, you can go about as much as you like criticising gay people. Go...