Konrad Werner: Stop being so grateful for the Mietbremse
Angela Merkel's new rent cap ain't that great. We should be demanding a lot more.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: We are not NATO's bitch
Why do we keep thinking that NATO is going to solve our problems?
View ArticleKonrad Werner: In the Kohl cellar
Okay, the Kohl Transcripts book is a bit clickbaity and gossipy. But journalists should stand up for its right to be published, not get all smug and moral about it.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Germany's arms race against itself
Germany needs to keep selling more weapons so it can raise its defence budget. Or the other way round. Whatever, the country is basically in an arms race with itself.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Hooray! Berlin has become boring
Last week, no one noticed that Berlin got a new mayor. And they were right to pay no attention, because Michael Müller is just a slightly paler version of Klaus Wowereit.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Muslims can take a few crap jokes
Just cos one Muslim can't understand Kabarett doesn't mean we need another media gang-bang. Kabarett isn't that funny anyway.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: The point of a trade union, 25 years on
The train strike is a nuisance? Well, that's kind of the point. When you moan about it you're basically saying, "How dare the train drivers not let us take them for granted."
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Stop pretending immigration is a big deal
Why do people keep going on about immigration?
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Afghanistan – send troops, give up responsibility
The point of the war in Afghanistan was just to have a war.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: The USA vs. Germany. Bring it.
We hate it when other people criticize our country, especially if they're right.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: There is literally no point to PEGIDA
Everything that the anti-Islam protests in Dresden are demanding is already in place in Germany.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: A box of snakes, but considerate ones
The case of Sebastian Edathy shows what happens when politicians think they're being nice.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Germany ends Afghanistan adventure
Can anyone remember what the Afghanistan war was about?
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Press freedom and being Charlie
Press freedom is about more than just drawing sacrilegious cartoons. In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo tragedy, calls for the expansion of surveillance are already being heard. When the press's privacy...
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Refugees in concentration camps
It's obviously not ideal putting refugees in what used to be part of a concentration camp. But that isn't the real problem.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Germany's big fat hypocrites on CIA torture
Both Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Justice Minister Heiko Maas expressed their outrage about CIA torture last month. But as a new Amnesty International report shows, they're big fat...
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Give Greece a chance
Merkel isn't as evil as everyone outside Germany says, but now would be a good time for German politicians to stop wagging their fingers at Athens.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Germany's reputation has been trashed
Merkel and Schäuble are bullying Europe to hide their own failure. And they're destabilizing the Middle East.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Banning Muslims
Local politicians want to ban the organization that runs the Al-Nur mosque in Neukölln. It's a futile and helpless gesture that will only divide the district even more.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Losing faith in the Olympics
Last day of our Olympics week. Konrad weighs in here: A bit like with the Catholic Church in the 16th century – enlightened Germans are beginning to lose their faith in the Olympics.
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