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Six AfD candidates have died ahead of municipal elections in Nordrhein-Westfalen. They are very unlikely to have been the victims of a…
I had plans to write about something else today, and I even have a half-finished post, but the story of the mysteriously dying AfD candidates is…
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Parties in Cologne elections agree to speak of migrants only in positive terms, as German political dumbassery plumbs new depths
From BILD:
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Economist fined €16,100 for implying a Green politician might be stupid, calling a state media journalist a "nincompoop" and accusing the…
Thomas Vierhaus is an economist from Düsseldorf with a small but active social media presence, particularly on Twitter/X. There, he now and again…
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Migrants in Dresden harass women on the tram, then slash an American man's face open as he tries to intervene
Late Saturday night, a pair of migrants on the Dresden tram (line 7) chose to amuse themselves by harassing two women, when a 21 year-old American man…
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Ursula von der Leyen told to leave room during multilateral talks at Trump's Washington summit – not a "leader" nor an "elected head of…
The sharp-eyed reporters at Apollo News caught this nugget in the flood of post-summit media coverage yesterday:
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In which Vladimir Zelensky and the Euro clowncar travel to Washington to hear the Russian terms of Ukraine's surrender from Donald Trump
In Friday’s summit with U.S.
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The European press are having a big stroppy sad following the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska
For a whole week after 8 August, the Alaska summit between U.S.
Aug 16
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Why I don't write about Covid anymore
This will be a more personal post.
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Friedrich Merz finds his chancellorship in crisis following his announcement of an arms embargo on Israel
I am trying to sell a house, which means posting is a littler harder than I’d like it to be right now, but the news even over the summer holidays is…
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AfD mayoral candidate Joachim Paul denied his right to run for office because he likes Tolkien and criticises migrants
On 21 September 2025, Ludwigshafen will elect a new mayor.
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The EU has spent over a million Euros fighting online hate speech in South Sudan, where almost nobody has internet access
NGOs are a lot of things.
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Trump and the Dictatorship of the Upper Middle-Class Urbanites
The establishment press love to call U.S.
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