How looting came to Germany this Halloween
On Halloween it is traditional in Germany to greet trick or treaters with the cry of ‘sweet or sour?’. This…
Is this email hack an attempt to destroy the AfD?
Hundreds of thousands of private emails from Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) party have been hacked and published online, exposing…
Could a steak chain heiress bring down Germany’s former spy chief?
Has a custody dispute involving the multi-millionaire heiress of a steak chain brought down the former head of Germany’s foreign…
A defection to the AfD has rattled Germany’s ruling party
For more than a decade, Germany’s mainstream political parties have placed a firewall around the AfD (Alternative for Germany) and…
Germany is still in denial about the Berlin terror attack
The annual Christopher Street Day, as Pride parades are known in Germany, has been a fixture of Berlin’s cultural calendar…
‘Make Germany normal again’: an interview with Germany’s exiled spy chief
Hans-Georg Maassen is an unlikely dissident. In his trademark three-piece suits and small glasses, he looks more like a law…
Never date a German man
Call me unpatriotic but, although I’m German, nothing could ever have persuaded me to date a German man. I married…
The chilling impact of Germany’s new self-ID law
The leopard-print dress, earrings, and lipstick are quintessentially feminine. The thick handlebar moustache and neck tattoos, somewhat less so. The…
J.D. Vance is right about Germany’s civilisational suicide
This week, US Vice President J.D. Vance levelled a blistering critique at Europe, accusing it of ‘committing civilisational suicide’, and…
Germany isn’t really cracking down on migration
Germany’s new interior minister, Alexander Dobrint of the Christian Social Union (CSU), has made quite a stir with his proposals…
Germany is dangerously close to banning the AfD
Alternative for Germany (AfD) has been declared ‘right-wing extremist’ who are ‘against the free democratic order’ by Germany’s domestic intelligence…
Why the AfD is leading in the polls
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
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
‘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
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?
‘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
‘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
On 23 February, I will vote for the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party in the German general election. As someone…
