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Dear Reader, For all of you who enjoy a German politician with an unpronounceable name, I have good news. In the future, we might not only have…

Mar 24

Good morning, Germany’s climate activists are nothing if not inventive. In their latest stunt they claim to have pulled up 250 ‘no limit’ signs on…

Mar 23

Good morning, Shortly after the police conducted nationwide raids on a Reichsbürger cell that was allegedly planning to topple Germany’s democratic…

Mar 22

Good morning, It seems crazy to me that changing the voting system doesn’t require a two thirds majority in the Bundestag. All that is needed to alter…

Mar 20

Dear Reader, As inflation started to bite last year and central banks reluctantly reacted by hiking interest rates, Germans began to wonder which…

Mar 16

Good day, Once in a blue moon doesn’t even begin to describe a coalition between the hard-left Linke party (successors to the east German communists…

Mar 15

Good morning, Germany's foreign intelligence service has suspended several of its agents on suspicion that they have far-right sympathies. One of the…

Mar 13

Good morning, Shocking scenes in Hamburg. A gunman forced his way into a Jehovah's Witness church service in the north of the city last night and killed…

Mar 10

Good morning, A German study has shown for the first time a correlation between lockdowns and a drop in IQ among school children. In the study conducted…

Mar 9

Dear Reader, There is a word in German that, for the life of me, I can’t find any real equivalent for in English. Planungssicherheit is easy enough to…

Mar 8

Dear Reader, Imagine that you bought an expensive house and the company that sold it to you insisted it was the most solid and secure home you could…

Mar 7

Dear Reader, On my way back from an appointment in the west of Berlin this afternoon, I dropped into a fairly anonymous looking cafe to grab a bite to…

Mar 2

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