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Billing on the newsletter is paused
Hi there, Just a quite email to say that I paused payments on the newsletter at the weekend. I am currently juggling child care and other work…
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Jörg Luyken
Why the cranes are standing still
Dear Reader, There are few better examples of the gridlock inside the German government than in housing policy. In its coalition pact, the ‘traffic…
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Green dream land
Dear Reader, How to explain the fact that Germany’s ‘super minister’ for the economy and climate insists on the one hand that renewable energy is the…
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Scholz in Africa
Dear Reader, Olaf Scholz spent three days last week in East Africa, his second visit to the continent since taking up office 18 months ago. On the trip…
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Warning: contains (not) banned word
Dear Reader, Something has happened over the past eight years that I am tempted to put down to the increased level of immigration to Germany. But it…
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What you are not being told about jailed 'activist' Jamshid Sharmahd
Dear Reader, I’m sure you know the feeling. Sometimes you burrow down a rabbit hole and when you come back up you’re not sure whether it’s you or the…
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April 2023
Psycho-drama + Berlin logjam + Russia plot
Dear Reader, The psycho-drama engulfing Germany's most powerful media empire has just gone to the next level. Axel Springer is suing one of its former…
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Dancing pensioners + catholic 'cover up'
Dear Reader, In my line of work you often meet people who either really want to talk to you or have no interest in talking at all. Both can be irksome…
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Bild blues + Merkel the great
Dear Reader, The head of Germany’s most powerful media empire, the company that publishes Bild Zeitung, you will be surprised to hear is a hot-headed…
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Nuclear exit + Merkel award
Dear Reader, Which technological novelties should we fear? With the development of large language models like chatGTP, that’s a question that is…
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Climate civil war + military heroes + Baerbock in China
Dear Reader, The Green party have until now stayed fairly quiet on the actions of the activist group Letzte Generation, whose main method of protest is…
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Ambassador out + weed in + Macron fail
Dear Reader, We are used to tense diplomatic squabbles with Russia, Iran and China. There was even a period not so long ago when Turkey regularly…
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