German Politics
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
The cult of Captain Tom is dead
Brits should stop gorging on sentimentality
Iron secretary
He didn’t quite dress up as Maggie, but he did everything but
How Hitler became unassailable
Jeremy Black and Graham Stewart discuss how Hitler entrenched his power across all aspects of German life in the 1930s
What really happened in Nottingham
In 2022, women are no longer allowed to gather in public libraries
Transports de joie
En route back to childhood at the Wallace Collection
The Realist bogeyman
Everyone likes to shoot the messenger and nobody likes to hear “I told you so”
Passion by the barrel
Meeting the new boss of London’s finest gunmaker
Language, truth and logic
Talking to Stella Creasy is never easy
The Sea! The Sea!
Southbank Sinfonia Baroque at St John’s Smith Square
Surviving the love of a psychopath
Norman Scott gets the last word against the man who raped and plotted to murder him
Our moral language is not okay
The triumph of emotivism