Published by The i paper (25th October, 2021) Yesterday I checked into a hotel in Berlin. Then I ate a cheese sandwich and drank a coffee in a […]
Europe / Germany
The secretary of evil and the dark shadows of history
Published by The Mail on Sunday (24th October, 2021) Eighty years ago this weekend, a young SS recruit started working as a guard at Sachsenhausen, the concentration camp […]
Europe / Politics
Is Labour dead?
Published by UnHerd (7th May, 2021) It is the great political conundrum of our age. Why are the parties of social democracy performing so poorly in many Western […]
Europe / Germany / Politics
A Green light from Germany
Published by The i paper (5th April, 2021) Angela Merkel has dominated her party, her country and our continent for most of this century, but her long reign […]
Covid19 / Politics
The dangerous naivety of Green anti-vaxxers
Published by UnHerd (15th March, 2021) When I was at university more than three decades ago, the environment began to take off as a fashionable cause. Acid rain […]
Europe / Germany
Anger, resentment and the rise of the far-right after the fall of the wall
Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd November, 2019) Frank Schale was a child of Communism. He can remember clearly the stinking air, the smog-filled streets, the water […]
Europe / Germany
Did German anti-Semitism ever really disappear?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th June, 2019) Nine months ago, Liam Rückert left his home and mother in Berlin to start a new life at a […]
Arts / Europe / European Union
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye?
Published by Damn (18th April, 2019) It seems strange to recall that when I was growing up in the suburbs of London almost half a century ago, the […]
Europe / Germany / Immigration / Policy
Crisis? What crisis? It’s just a few boats feuling hysteria about immigration
Published by The ipaper (31st December, 2018) As Angela Merkel enters the twilight of her extraordinary political career, she can look back on a nation transformed by her […]
Europe / European Union / Germany / Technology
Why you can’t really on the news media to understand Europe
Published by UnHerd (16th March, 2018) Which country’s politics are most closely observed after our own in Britain? It’s easy: just look at the army of press corps […]