Elisabeth Dampier

Why the AfD is leading in the polls

10 April 2025 8:25 pm

Germany has a new government. It may also have a new government in waiting. On the same day that the…

Germany is heading towards an immigration catastrophe

14 March 2025 9:25 pm

The German Social Democratic party (SPD) has published its working paper on immigration. It calls for half a million more…

Why even parts of Berlin are moving right

2 March 2025 4:00 pm

‘Berlin is more East than West’, said Thilo Sarrazin. A member of the centre-left SPD, in 2010 he published Germany…

Germans won’t get the right-wing government they voted for

24 February 2025 6:13 pm

Germany is still a divided country – at least when you look at its electoral map. After this weekend’s federal election,…

Why do so many gay men support the AfD?

11 February 2025 12:40 am

‘There are many neighbourhoods we can no longer go to because we are in danger of being injured, attacked or murdered,’ Ali…

‘I am the German Donald Trump’: an interview with the AfD’s Maximilian Krah

8 February 2025 9:00 am

‘My knife is at your throat,’ says a Turkish barber, wielding a razor blade around Maximilian Krah’s face. Krah, one…

Why I’m voting for the AfD

11 January 2025 9:00 am

On 23 February, I will vote for the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party in the German general election. As someone…