Germany
European champions
Kampfner has written a scrupulously researched yet not uncritical tribute to postwar Germany
The imperial court of the ECJ
The dismantlement of the EU’s separation of powers has wider implications, especially for the UK
How I discovered Germany
Daniel Johnson on how he found a lost love for the Germans
How Hollywood managed to celebrate German culture in 1954
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s musical coming out just nine years after the end of World War II invited Germany back into polite society
Myths of the Prophet Max
Daniel Johnson on the life and work of Max Weber, whose controversial views on democracy still resonate today
Germany’s Red Army Faction
Ominous parallels between 1970s West Germany and Britain today
Lifetimes of self-isolation
Composing in seclusion
Requiem for a bad meal
Lisa Hilton mourns the pleasure of good company – even in a cynically awful faux Italian in Berlin
Coronavirus: are international comparisons helpful?
And do Europe’s small countries give us the most accurate statistics?
Winners of the Wall Game
A confident new Germany has consigned division to history
The National Trust should act its age
Our main heritage conservation charity wants to be down with the kids
Embracing the quiet life
Keir Starmer takes a vow of public service and perpetual dogmatic silence
The spy who came in from the coast
Defector Natalie Elphicke leaves the Circus to join the pinkos
What law? What order?
Shit, piss and the ever-present threat of violence, as the meek and law-abiding hold back
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
School’s out forever
British universities are in an unsustainable state of overexpansion, and taxpayers can’t be expected to keep footing the bill
Less smoking, more cancer?
Yet more nonsense from the public health lobby
A victory for press freedom in Northern Ireland
People suspected of sexual offences pre-charge will not have the right to automatic anonymity
Beyond the boundary
Can art reflect a nation’s spirit through its depictions of one of its favourite games?
Why tech execs don’t give their kids phones
Gen Z’s brains have been “rewired” by the online world —can they be restored to factory settings?
Remnant Rubens
A provincial folk artist offers an alternative view of Georgian society
