The wrong mindset: When confetti is more dangerous than reality
There was a time when Carnival was a release valve. A place where people could escape reality through...
SRG and why 200 francs is also too much!
Switzerland really has a talent for turning simple questions into a national scandal. For example: How much is the mandatory fee...?
The career of a harmless revolutionary: Moderate. Empty.
There are careers that only reality can write, because even a satirist would have too much respect for credibility to...
The Alpine fire and the art of disappearing
Forty young people die. In a country that sees itself as a clockwork mechanism: precise, reliable, neutral. In Switzerland...
More than just a Federal Councillor: The modesty of the SRG leadership
There are institutions that preach responsibility. And there are institutions that charge exorbitant fees for this responsibility. Welcome to...
The high priest of public service and the fear of empty coffers
There are people who don't explain, they educate. And then there's Marko Kovic. If a wrong opinion starts to take root anywhere, ...
SRG: Why compulsory media do not strengthen democracy
The initiative to halve the SRG's budget is essentially not a radical act, but a matter of basic courtesy. Andreas Thiel puts it so simply...
Pandemic as a business model: Community of values or administrative circus?
It's a fascinating spectacle: While Europe's political class is still wagging its finger at its own moral self-congratulation, Donald is marching...
Fact Week: Framing as a Method – The SRF Lesson in Media Literacy
There's this touching legend that public service media build bridges. Dialogue. Encounter. Listening. Understanding. Equal footing. One imagines it roughly...
Freedom of expression: This pretty relic from the mothballed chest of democracy
There was a time when freedom of speech was considered something positive. A foundation of democracy. A protective right against the abuse of power. Today...
SRG: Public service or service narrative?
The SRG is a fascinating Swiss microcosm: officially a "public service", but practically a superbly oiled opinion-steering machine with friendly, smiling presenters and...
Damann's mandatory vaccination policy, or how a health director delegates responsibility
Not quietly, not elegantly, but with the sound that arises when political responsibility finally touches the ground. Who is Bruno...?
Epidemic law: normalization of the state of emergency, coercion, clearly formulated
The Federal Council has apparently decided that something sustainable should be made of the pandemic after all. Not trust, transparency...
No partial revision without coming to terms with the past: Why remembrance is the last defense of democracy
There are sentences that sound so harmlessly reasonable that you'd almost want to print them on a sign and put it in front of the...
Democracy on «Fast Track»: Build faster, object more slowly
With the partial revision of the Telecommunications Act (FMG), the Federal Council aims to "accelerate" the expansion of mobile communications. The consultation draft of December 12, 2025, suggests...
Free Jacques Baud, or about sanctions, war policies, and the silent abandonment of the rule of law.
There are these moments when you pause briefly and wonder if you just had a bad dream or if...
SRF provides the argument for halving its budget: Crans-Montana is burning, SRF is in standby mode.
Breaking news from SRF. And by "breaking" we don't mean the fire in Crans-Montana, but rather the self-image of a public broadcaster...
Livestream from hell: When your cell phone is more important than the emergency exit
A club is on fire. Flames devour the ceiling, smoke creeps into every lung like a dark thought. And what...
The Federal Council photo 2026 – an approximation of reality
So, my dears, this is the Federal Council photo for 2026. At least, that's what it would be if we were to do reality the favor of...
The voluntary e-ID and other modern fairy tales
There are these wonderful words in political folklore. Words like voluntary. Or transparent. Or you don't need to worry...
Welcome to the EU sanctions lottery: a draw without a court, winnings are account freezes.
There are moments when you marvel at the creative efficiency of modern power. In the past, punishments required such tedious rituals: ...
Banana republic Switzerland: Where corruption is called "donation" and independence is sold as a subscription model
There are countries called banana republics because money, power, and politics maintain a close, physical relationship there. And then...
Self-determined health: New paths beyond statutory health insurance supplementary insurance
The current health insurance system is restrictive, expensive, and leaves little room for genuine personal responsibility. Dr. Björn Riggenbach demonstrates this in ...
SERAFE & Friends: 158 million for sending you a bill
Welcome to Switzerland, where watches, chocolate, and mandatory fees function with precision. And right in the middle sits SERAFE, this state-approved "pig-pot-lid" contraption that...
Censorship bars: The new corporate design of BLS
There are moments when you wonder whether you live in Switzerland or in a well-oiled satire show...
Federal Council in battle mode: The revolution at the vegetable scales
There are days when you seriously wonder whether Switzerland simply has no real problems or whether the Federal Council...
Mr. Corona Daniel Koch – revisited 🤡
This Mr. Corona has lied to, manipulated, and deceived people in a perfidious way – so much so that it actually...
EU bureaucracy: 20 million words and not a single spark of intelligence
The EU has officially succeeded in piling up a mountain of words that is larger than the combined output of all writers since the...
Doctor of Pandemic Propaganda: University of Freiburg crowns the master of smoke and mirrors
Sometimes the state of a society is revealed not in elections, crises, or revolutions, but in the awarding of honorary doctorates. Switzerland, ...
From the art of healing to error messages: Medicine in the grip of AI mania
Artificial intelligence in the Swiss healthcare system sounds like efficiency, precision, and the future. An algorithm that detects illnesses before you...








































