AfD
Time is up for Friedrich Merz
Friedrich Merz is the most tragic chancellor in the young history of the reunified Germany. It is time for him…
Another AfD win could mean the end for Germany’s embattled chancellor
Just two weeks after the Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) victory in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, two more state elections are…
Portrait of the week: Britain sanctions Jewish settlements, Dover protests erupt and the AfD wins big
Home Ed Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, set out in the Commons new restrictions on buying goods made in Jewish settlements…
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…
How Germany’s Free Democratic party capitalised on the AfD’s misfortunes
One of the most remarkable stories to come out of Germany in the last year has been the rise of…
Where did it all go wrong for Angela Merkel?
Trier, Rhineland Was it really just a few months ago that Angela Merkel was being hailed as the leader of…
Portrait of the week
Home In the Budget, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, kept talking of the ‘next generation’. He outlined cuts…
Driven to extremes
Imagine if Nigel Farage declared that police should be ready to shoot migrants trying to make it from Calais to…
