Konrad Werner: Die Welt does a Breitbart
Another week, another tiresome hatchet job on Muslims in Germany. Only this time the Springer Verlag pre-emptively plays to the Breitbart audience.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Andrej Holm, the Stasi teenager
Everybody has an opinion about Andrej Holm, but it depends a lot on what you thought about the capitalist orgy of Berlin's housing situation before.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: It's not just terrorists spreading fear
Terrorists feed on our news-fevered brains.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Punching Björn Höcke in the face would be patriotic
There is no tolerating Nazis. That is the whole point of Germany.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Germany condemns Trump, but makes money off him
Germany has an old rule when it comes to foreign despots – condemn first then do business. It's working for Trump too.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: The good kind of banality
Politics and diplomacy are alright, but sometimes it takes dull bureaucracy to resist dictators like Erdoğan. So cheer for health and safety regulations in the town of Gaggenau. #FreeDeniz
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Why Schulz is an upgrade on Merkel
There's more to the centre than just centrists – Martin Schulz is a real alternative to Angela Merkel.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Merkel's government and the car industry are identical
Merkel just hired Opel's chief lobbyist as her campaign manager. Because that's what CDU governments do.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Worrying about integration again
Some Turkish people in Germany voted "Evet" (yes) in Erdoğan's referendum last Sunday. The German newspapers decided that this means society is collapsing, and Turkish people have to sort it out.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Saudi Arabia is Germany's new moral guru
Saudi Arabia has said it won't bother Germany for more weapons again, because of the political problems. The German government is all like: Oh, we don't mind. We sold a load of "Dingos" to a Kurdish...
View ArticleKonrad Werner: No more love for the SPD?
The North Rhine-Westphalia result is sad, but then again it's the SPD's own fault.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Deflated innocence
Why doesn't the "Die Welt" balloon have "Die Welt" anymore, and what's that have to do with the reason why German newspapers almost never criticize German businesses?
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Helmut Kohl, at least he believed in something
Here's something nice about Helmut Kohl.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Goodbye, Volksbühne
The Volksbühne under Frank Castorf was funny and exhausting and ingenious and dense and uncompromising and communist. Konrad will miss it.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: When is Europe going to stand up for itself?
Turkey is imprisoning people at will, Poland is subjugating the judiciary, Hungary is putting up anti-semitic posters and beating the shit out of migrants. Why are we still complaining about politics...
View ArticleKonrad Werner: The NSU prosecutors' argument is a joke
After 375 trial days, this week the prosecutors in the NSU trial started presenting their closing argument – and left everyone wondering if they knew what was happening.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: If you vote for a racist person, you might be racist
The AfD and their voters hate Germany's integration commissioner because they don't believe in integration. That's the whole point.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: No, the AfD isn't falling apart
It was fun watching Frauke Petry walk out of the AfD's triumphal press conference this week. But it doesn't mean the party is disintegrating.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: The pointless AfD-appeasing refugee cap
The election has not changed Merkel's mind – the German policy on refugees is still: keep them out and pretend you're not racist.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Merkel's coalition talks will never end
Angela Merkel's fourth government will be one long coalition negotiation. Just like life, isn't it?
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