Konrad Werner: Berlin is screwing its renters
Berlin is supposed to be one of the best cities for protecting tenants' rights. But all the laws that do that – rent caps and Milieuschutz – are just bits of extra bureaucracy for property investors to...
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Support the (modest) petitions petition
There's a Volksinitiative petition going round Berlin now to try and make petitions mean something. It's basic and good, even if doesn't give non-Germans any rights.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Pegida lost the Kinder chocolate, but it's winning everything...
Taking the piss out of the Pegida idiots and saying you'd love to have Jerome Boateng living next door is all very good, but Merkel's integration law shows that the racists are still winning.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Mr. "Sustainability" Müller blocks the cyclists
Politics did it again: Mayor Michael Müller stalled the cycling petition – and then hosted an urban sustainability forum. Hooray!
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Coddling Erdogan, Europe's Trump
You wonder what a Trump presidency will be like? Basically Turkey but with nuclear weapons.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: The Brits are going
There's plenty of Brexit talk in Berlin -- but what does it actually mean for the approximate 105,965 British citizens living in Germany? Here's a breakdown ahead of the June 23 vote.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Britain's buggered, but now we need a proper EU
Everything's fucked, and Brexit is just a symptom of it – and Merkel and Juncker need to come up with a plan that's better than just "make the markets stable".
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Sigmar Gabriel is probably not evil
The German economy minister and Social Democrat leader doesn't seem to be evil - but if he isn't, then he has no courage and it's ruining German politics.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Linke Autonomen are nothing like Nazis
They smell a bit, but lefties are not like Nazis, and burning a car is not the same as burning down a refugee shelter, whatever Frank Henkel says.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: We'll take that, Merkel
Angela Merkel hasn't changed much in the last nine years, but our standards have – in this world, anyone who can hold a coherent thought looks like a great humanitarian.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: I saw the sign 2016
Since last week, the streets of Berlin, or their lampposts, have been littered with them: campaign posters for the September city elections. Konrad Werner gives the good (intentions), bad and WTF?!
View ArticleKonrad Werner: If you really want to ban the burqa...
Go ahead and ban burqas, but then can we get on to an issue that affects our lives?
View ArticleKonrad Werner: The CDU blames Merkel for doing her job
So apparently the CDU leader in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern thinks Merkel's "refugee policy" is to blame for his electoral defeat. Maybe it would've helped if he'd pointed out his state hardly has any...
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Berlindecision 2016
If you’re an Anglophone reader who by a twist of lineage and law finds themselves eligible to vote here, do it! And don’t be confused about it either. Konrad's walks you through it.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Snowden-friendly Germany invests in mass surveillance
The German secret service this month leaked its mass surveillance plans to the press and no one was charged with treason. Netzpolitik did the same thing last year and caused a massive fuss.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: The Linke is not like the AfD
The German media has decided that Sahra Wagenknecht and Frauke Petry are similar. Even though they're clearly not. Why? Who the hell knows. They have to write something, I suppose.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: You have to look busy
What would you do if you were a politician? Make even more laws?
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Oh great, more mad idiots with guns
Last week, some German people decided that the world wasn't mad enough yet and decided to kill a policeman because ... erm ... Germany is a company or something. Who are the Reichsbürger?
View ArticleKonrad Werner: The news is meant to be a bit boring
Sometimes we pretend the news is important and serious because we hate ourselves and want to be unhappy.
View ArticleWatching Trump win in Another Country
Konrad found a beautiful, well-named bookshop to witness the end of times.
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