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Time to break with 'German guilt'?
Dear Reader, At the weekend I did something that, as the father of two small children, gave me a deep sense of privilege. I went to the cinema. The film…
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Jörg Luyken
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Why are so few refugees finding work?
Dear Reader, For this weekend’s newsletter I set about trying to understand one of the most emotionally charged questions in German today: why are so…
Mar 24
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Jörg Luyken
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Why are so few refugees finding work?
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Where did it all go wrong?
Dear Reader, It has been a decade since I moved to Germany. In my first summer I got to experience the Sommermärchen, when Germany’s football team…
Mar 20
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Jörg Luyken
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How big a problem is financial sleaze?
While reading the papers with my morning coffee today, I came across the NANC trading fund, which was set up to mirror the stock portfolio of former…
Mar 18
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Jörg Luyken
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Safety-first anarchists + Taurus latest + one-man Stasi
Dear Reader, A stopped clock tells the right time twice a day. And the odd prediction made in this newsletter comes true, too. In an old edition, I…
Mar 13
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Jörg Luyken
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Safety-first anarchists + Taurus latest + one-man Stasi
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Huffy Habeck + back to the future + tractor terror
Dear Reader, Few questions are so polarising in German society as that of whether going all-in on renewable energy is a far-sighted masterstroke… or a…
Mar 10
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Jörg Luyken
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Huffy Habeck + back to the future + tractor terror
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The Kremlin's 'propaganda coup'
Dear Reader, The Kremlin has scored a major propaganda victory by managing to record and publish the contents of a “top secret” telephone call between…
Mar 6
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Jörg Luyken
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The temptation of mass surveillance
Dear Reader, I’ve just returned to Berlin from a trip to visit family in the UK, the country of my birth. That visit reminded me of how German I’ve…
Mar 3
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Jörg Luyken
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February 2024
Legalise it... just not like this!
Dear Reader, There is no cogent argument left to be made against the legalisation of cannabis. That is not because the stoners have been right all along…
Feb 28
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Jörg Luyken
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How low will Germany's economy go?
Dear Reader, Germany’s main opposition party, the Christian Democrats, didn’t have to do much to end this week as the winners in an ongoing debate over…
Feb 24
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Jörg Luyken
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Time to build the German bomb?
Dear Reader, I’m not sure that a doyenne of the 1960s hippie movement would appreciate me quoting her lyrics when it comes to support for nuclear…
Feb 21
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Jörg Luyken
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Time to build the German bomb?
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Glass houses and stones
Hi there, I am on holiday next week and won’t be sending out newsletters on Wednesday and Saturday. The next newsletter will arrive on your inbox on…
Feb 10
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Jörg Luyken
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Glass houses and stones
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