Konrad 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.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: R2G – first we take Berlin
The newly rubber-stamped red-red-green coalition won't make the sick, empty feeling go away. But what else have we got.
View ArticleKonrad Werner: Questions for the Anonymous
Konrad's brain usually goes into standby when people start talking about hacking things, so we made him go to Saturday's Disruption Network Lab and interview one of the world's leading experts on the...
View ArticleKonrad Werner: How long can Germany hold out?
Don't let people tell you things aren't bad. Because they are.
View ArticleKonrad 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.
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