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Tuesday 15 May 2012	Germany


Matthias Heitmann Pirate Party: giving politics a jolly roger The cyber-rights obsessives are not a ‘fresh wind’ - they just show how much politics is screwed.

Tuesday 18 October 2011
Matthias Heitmann How Germany’s Pirates might sink the mainstream The recent electoral success for the Pirate Party highlights the inability of the major parties to inspire voters.

Monday 1 August 2011
Brendan O’Neill ‘Did I cause the Norway massacre? That’s just silly’ Thilo Sarrazin, controversial author of Germany Abolishes Itself, tells spiked that those blaming him for Norway are ‘insane’.

Thursday 30 June 2011
Matthias Heitmann The trouble with the Women’s World Cup The sanitisation of football in the name of feminine values is bad news for women's football. And for society.

Thursday 2 June 2011
Frank Furedi Nuclear vs climate change: the clash of the alarmists Germany’s hysterical decision to shut down all its nuclear power plants exposes the dangers of competitive fearmongering.

Thursday 24 March 2011
Matthias Heitmann The globalisation of German angst Never mind the people in Japan — for fearful Germans, every natural disaster is now ‘all about us’.

Monday 13 December 2010
Johannes Richardt Accidents are a fact of a life lived well The cheap, politician-led exploitation of an accident on a German TV show is a threat to our freedom to take risks.

Monday 25 October 2010
Sabine Beppler-Spahl The intolerant legacy of multiculturalism Germany’s angry debate about immigration has its roots in the multiculturalist emphasis on difference.

Monday 13 September 2010
Sabine Beppler-Spahl Thilo Sarrazin: the dark side of multiculturalism Sarrazin’s claim that people are imprisoned by their ethnicity is not that different from PC notions of ‘diversity’.

Tuesday 27 July 2010
Nathalie Rothschild Don’t cancel Love Parade – make it better The deaths of 20 revellers is a terrible tragedy, but we shouldn’t respond to such events by putting life on hold.

Wednesday 2 June 2010
Thomas Deichmann Germany and the politics of resignation It’s a worrying sign of the times that more and more of our leaders respond to controversy by throwing in the towel.

Monday 24 May 2010
Sean Collins Why Mrs Europe is bashing the bankers Angela Merkel’s unilateral decision to ban ‘short selling’ shows how deluded and divided the political class is.

Thursday 12 November 2009
Sabine Reul Germany: still divided after all these years The fall of the Berlin Wall, far from heralding a unified future, ushered in a new period of discord between west and east.

Wednesday 7 October 2009
Matthias Heitmann No end in sight for Bundestagnation Angela Merkel’s victory puts an end to the inertia of the Grand Coalition, but German politics still lacks dynamism.

Thursday 17 September 2009
Mick Hume Why Thatcher defended the Berlin Wall Secret Kremlin minutes from 1989 reveal that anti-communist Western leaders were privately terrified about the demise of the Soviet bloc.

Thursday 13 November 2008
Rob Killick The Baader Meinhof Complex: hippy terror A new film captures the tragi-farcical fate of the radicals who rejected capitalism and the working class.

Wednesday 4 July 2007
Matthias Heitmann Achtung: if you’re fat, you’re anti-social The German government’s new anti-obesity campaign seems designed to turn people’s weight into a measure of their moral integrity.

Friday 16 June 2006
Matthias Heitmann Achtung! Kick politics and morality out of football A Frankfurt-based journalist and football fan tackles the German government for trying to reinvent the nation around the World Cup.

Tuesday 20 September 2005
Brendan O’Neill German election: Was ist das? On the gap between the pre-election predictions and the post-election mess.

Friday 26 August 2005
Sabine Reul Germany: have politicians lost their tongues? Speechlessness and evasion mark the run-up to the German elections.
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