Konrad 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?
View ArticleKonrad Werner: The refugee deal is immoral, but it might save Merkel
Today it begins: refugees from Greece are going to be mass deported back to Turkey. Well done Europe – a million people was all it took to wipe out all your post-World-War-II principles.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: So are we sure Erdogan doesn't fuck goats?
What's the point of living in a free country if you can't accuse foreign dictators of fucking goats?
View ArticleKonrad Werner: It's balls to the wall time for Michael Müller
Konrad is not completely clear on what that expression means, but it seems to fit the situation of Berlin's crabbed and awkward mayor.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Tactical promotion for the AfD
If you can't beat the AfD... give them a job? I suppose that's where we are now. I guess with an election coming up there is little time to disguise your campaign ploys.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: The Heckler & Koch plot thickens
Prosecuting media outlets has become Germany's new favourite thing – after Böhmermann, public prosecutors have now started going after journalists who uncovered Heckler & Koch's illegal arms deal.
View ArticleKonrad 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?
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