German Politics
NATO needs the Germans to be up
European defence depends on a stronger Germany
Is there a secret plot against AfD politicians?
Conspiracy theories flourish in a culture of anti-democratic censorship and authoritarianism
The German gravy train
Politicians in Germany are demanding more from the electorate while expecting more for themselves
The fall of the German firewall
The establishment cannot continue to prioritise keeping out the AfD
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
A memo crying in the wilderness
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department?
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth
Thank God for Brexit
The EU is a bureaucratic monster and Britain is better off out
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The EU’s immigration asymmetry
Ten years on, the EU still hasn’t learned Brexit’s hard lesson on migration
Joyless virtue signalling masquerading as scholarship
Dozier’s The White Pedestal is more an exercise in ideology than a search for the truth
Keep the state out of sex
Bureaucracy should not be allowed into the bedroom
In the trenches
Hannah Betts considers whether the
classic trench coat is the GOAT
British comedy: a post-mortem
British comedy has become safe, stale and contrived
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration