Friedbert Meurer
Auf Wiedersehen, Britain
A German radio broadcaster on what he’s learnt about the British
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
Rite of autumn
Labour is celebrating the harvest and definitely not sacrificing pensioners in the hopes that the gods grant us plenty in the coming fiscal year
The authoritarian populism of Keir Starmer
This government is anything but technocratic
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors