Germany
Twin totems of Teutonic angst
The German obsession with Goethe’s Faust and Shakespeare’s Hamlet
The end of German stability?
Years of complacency has seen right wing populism surge in the holy land of centrism
The EU rule of law crisis
The UK should be paying more attention
Against the hysterical consensus
The US has to confront its own global identity
Max Beckmann in Munich
A harried artist between the classical and the modern
Cash only in Berlin
The city is struggling to remain itself
Jiving in the ruins
This dazzling album features young composers in hyperinflationary Berlin
Germany at the crossroads
Coming to terms with Merkel’s toxic legacy
Is Germany riding to the defence of Europe?
Don’t expect the cavalry just yet
Some wars are just
A new film of a classic First World War novel focuses attention on the pacifism of the German elite that denies Ukraine the means of liberation
Old man shouts at Trump
The US Presidential debate was a tragicomic spectacle
Something rotten in the state of Germany
The Bundestag has weakened the criminal penalties for child pornography
The incarnation of vice
Sex, gypsies, smoking, smugglers, sex, bullfighting, murder, and did we mention…sex?
Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera House
It’s an amazing paradox that something as tawdry as opera can produce such a pure expression of what it is to be human
The schadenfreude election
The Labour landslide is a clarifying moment, which will be good for British political debate
California dreaming
The delight of discovering an affordable California blend
The exec on an unfiltered journey
It seems dangerously liable to foster neuroticism and credulity
Commonwealth citizens should not be allowed to vote
Newly arrived non-citizens being allowed to vote makes a farce of British democracy
Lockdowns and the problem with science-based policy
Evidence in politics is great, but what evidence and to what ends?
“Forced”
Here they walk, they can do no other
The Conservatives deserve credit on sex and gender
They were slow to respond to institutional capture — but they did respond
