German Politics
The end of German stability?
Years of complacency has seen right wing populism surge in the holy land of centrism
Germany at the crossroads
Coming to terms with Merkel’s toxic legacy
The SPD
Many of Germany’s present woes were anticipated by Schröder’s time in office
The strange death of the CDU
The decline of Angela Merkel’s party may return Germany to a Weimar-style splintered parliament
Armin Laschet, Germany’s next Chancellor: Pro-China, Pro-Putin, Pro-Assad?
As China rises and Russia rattles its sabre, the Germans will hope that the younger generation have as much ease learning Mandarin as Merkel’s generation did English
Police Scotland must stop patronising the public
The Hate Crime And Public Order Act will waste the time of the police and endanger the freedoms of the public
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
How the internet killed The Simpsons
Nicholas Clairmont has avidly viewed more than 750 episodes of the comedy about the residents of Springfield — but won’t be watching any more
Why is the US facing a “crisis of credibility”?
It is a crisis that has been created by the hubris of the establishment
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
The ongoing fiasco of European defence
Starry-eyed talk of continental cooperation obscures the grim reality of competing interests
Smartphones are not the source of all social ills
Phones and social media are easy scapegoats for our all too human follies
The elusive Seiji Ozawa was Japan’s greatest peacemaker
Farewell not just to a conductor but to a generous man
In defence of British theological education
Critics should be more optimistic about the new generation of ordinands
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
