February 2018

Gustave Caillebotte, 'Rooftops In The Snow', 1878.

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Götz Kubitschek speaking at the 'Zukunft Heimat' demo in Cottbus, 24.02.2018

'Now WE ask the questions'

The wind of change in Germany? Götz Kubitschek's speech to the Zukunft Heimat demonstration in Cottbus on 24 February.

Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-02-27 10:43.

Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst

22 February 1943: the White Rose

Hans and Sophie Scholl, Christoph Probst: guillotined on this day 75 years ago.

Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-02-24 15:33.

The Swiss PostAuto service

The PostAuto car crash

The unpleasant whiff of subsidy corruption in Switzerland.

Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-02-24 10:12.

Nikolas Cruz looking out of this world on his mugshot (Broward County Jail).

Mass shootings in the USA

No quick fix, no easy solution.

Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-02-23 10:49.

Kirsty Sharman

Kippered Kirsty: a lesson to us all

In defence of the unreasonable, the bloody-minded and the pig-headed amongst us.

Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-02-21 10:12.
Updated on UTC 2018-02-24

Franz Schubert, Pencil sketch by Friedrich Lieder, 1827

Midnight, 21 February 1818

On this day 200 years ago, Franz Schubert was drunk in charge of an inkpot.

Posted by Richard on UTC 2018-02-21 00:01.

Martin Schulz. Image: ©SPD (detail)

Martin… er… who?

The German Foreign Minister for 36 hours. Gone and soon to be completely forgotten.

Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-02-10 10:14.
Updated on UTC 2018-02-10

FBI Deputy Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence Division Peter Strzok and FBI attorney Lisa Page

It's a hard life at the FBI

Maybe get a blister on your little finger. Maybe get a blister on your thumb.

Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-02-08 13:01.
Updated on UTC 2018-02-25

Richard Nixon in 1974

Watergate through the looking glass

No smoking gun but a lot of mirrors.

Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-02-05 10:07.

Effete, hypercritical, unforgiving: Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931), Count Robert de Montesquiou 1897, ©RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d'Orsay) (detail).

Desperately hating Donald

The German-speaking media opines on President Trump's SOTUS speech.

Posted by Mad Mitch on UTC 2018-02-02 22:19.
Updated on UTC 2018-02-07

Pulling the plug on the Swiss broadcaster

An interesting referendum coming up on 4 March in Switzerland.

Posted by Austin Morris on UTC 2018-02-01 7:23.
Updated on UTC 2018-03-04

Elizabeth Layton-Nel (1917-2007), taken sometime during her war service.

The real Elizabeth Layton

Wartime clouds of smoke in 10 Downing Street.

Posted by Werner Vogt on UTC 2018-02-01 08:14.

Dim Theresa May. Image: Breitbart/Geoff Pugh/AFP/Getty.

The Peter Principle – May extension

Every day more and more people ask themselves: How did someone as dim and incompetent as Theresa May get to be Prime Minister of Britain?

Posted by Thersites on UTC 2018-02-01 07:34.
Updated on UTC 2018-02-24

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