HOME | CATEGORY HOME | Art | Austria | Christmas | Churchill | Classics | Climate | Climbing | COVID | Culture | English language | English literature | EU | France | Free speech | French literature | German language | German literature | Germany | Goethe | Gotthard | Heine | Heloise Höchner | Misc | Nature | Philosophy | Pound | Religion | Romania | Romansh | Rousseau | Rückert | Schubart | Schubert | Science | Senn | Sociology | Switzerland | UK | UK monarchy | Ukraine | US | Website | WW1 | WW2 68 articles in category 'Germany'. Where is your brother? On the 83rd anniversary of the first judicial murders of the White Rose martyrs, excerpts of a speech given by Heinrich Böll on remembering the dead of the Nazi terror. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2026-02-22 18:09 Words: 3,244; reading time: 14 minutes Updated on 2026-03-14 No laughing matter German jokes and German theatre. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2026-02-20 09:14 Words: 1,085; reading time: 4 minutes Scrapbook for May SchMerz Posted on UTC 2025-05-01 02:01 Words: 657; reading time: 2 minutes Last chance for Germany After that, the game's up Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2025-03-17 14:00 Words: 1,080; reading time: 4 minutes Updated on 2025-03-18 Compare and contrast US dynamism, German stasis Posted on UTC 2025-02-01 11:22 Words: 1,394; reading time: 6 minutes Scrapbook for February Germany: Putting rubber on the road | Germany: Same procedure, Miss Sophie? | Germany: One more time around the drain? | No peace like a Swiss peace | Zeitgeist and Zeitenwende in Germany | Menuhin Academy Masterclasses 2025 Posted on UTC 2025-02-01 02:01 Words: 1,844; reading time: 8 minutes Germany crawling The German decline and fall. Posted on UTC 2025-01-03 02:01 Words: 1,033; reading time: 4 minutes Scrapbook for January The AfD: out of the shadows and into the light Posted on UTC 2025-01-01 02:01 Words: 390; reading time: 1 minute Scrapbook for September Twisted knickers, German style Posted on UTC 2024-09-01 02:01 Words: 435; reading time: 1 minute Germany cracking up Was the reunification of Germany misguided? Posted on UTC 2024-06-13 02:01 Words: 1,861; reading time: 8 minutes Something you will not read in the MSM Germany: the peaceniks of the 'far right' AfD take on the hippy-dippy Green warriors. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2024-03-13 12:28 Words: 648; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for October T-Rex | How Do You Solve a Problem Like Joe Biden? | Good breeding | Website changes | German Federal Election 2021 | Foraging for fungi Posted on UTC 2021-10-01 02:01 Words: 2,163; reading time: 9 minutes Scrapbook for March COVID-19 sanity check | Disgusting | Thuggery | New site navigation | Saint Joseph's Day | Can the UK National Health Service cope with COVID-19? | Do not touch me, woman | Two inspectors call | And don't step in the excrement | Country music for the doolally | The Schubert guide to handwashing | Before social media Posted on UTC 2020-03-01 02:01 Words: 1,893; reading time: 8 minutes Thuringia voted! Three months ago. The last election worked so well that they had better have another one. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2020-02-07 14:04 Words: 1,126; reading time: 5 minutes Thuringia has voted! Another rip in the increasingly tattered fabric of Germany. Still no change though – yet. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-10-28 11:14 Words: 1,082; reading time: 4 minutes No change in Sachsen and Brandenburg State elections in Germany: All quiet on the eastern front – and everywhere else for that matter. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-09-02 14:18 Words: 1,174; reading time: 5 minutes German solidarity Sticking it to the rich. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-08-29 17:22 Words: 1,449; reading time: 6 minutes The Green-Red media infestation in Germany Mixing green and red makes brown – no arguing with that. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2019-06-22 14:13 Words: 985; reading time: 4 minutes Scrapbook for December Spot the human dot | What's in a name? | Aspen year Posted on UTC 2018-12-01 02:01 Words: 388; reading time: 1 minute Thoughts for the coming year But no tidings of comfort and joy. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-12-14 14:38 Words: 1,700; reading time: 7 minutes Scrapbook for November More Envy of the World™ | InSight lands on Mars | Something for the flag experts | Three-bar flags | Good idea, Angela! | Our aspen | More means less Posted on UTC 2018-11-01 02:01 Words: 578; reading time: 2 minutes Hunting down immigrants in Chemnitz At last some facts, three months after they were really needed. Better late than never. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-11-19 13:16 Words: 1,285; reading time: 5 minutes Protecting the German constitution Enough empirical truth for the moment, Maaßen. Get out now, before you cause any more trouble for the Dear Leader. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-11-07 17:17 Words: 1,292; reading time: 5 minutes Scrapbook for October Kubitschek: down but not out | Aspen calm | The Great British Winter Festival | Gottfried Keller's 'Dreambook' Posted on UTC 2018-10-01 02:01 Words: 1,722; reading time: 7 minutes That German right-wing landslide Germany through the looking glass. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-10-30 07:18 Words: 725; reading time: 3 minutes Updated on 2018-10-31 The Bavarian earthquake — Did the earth move for you, Marie? — Not that I noticed. Perhaps next time. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-10-15 10:05 Words: 507; reading time: 2 minutes Germany: where are we? Where are we going? Nowhere. Fast. Does it matter? No. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-07-10 09:57 Words: 1,152; reading time: 5 minutes The Kaiserbrunnen in Konstanz 25 years ago the 'Fountain of the Emperors' caught up with the modern world. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-06-28 09:44 Words: 4,287; reading time: 19 minutes All at sea with Seehofer Sink or swim time for Germany's flexible Interior Minister and his aggrieved party. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-06-20 13:23 Words: 1,892; reading time: 8 minutes Hitler: demon, dummy or smooth operator? Oh no, not him again… Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-06-12 09:14 Words: 1,147; reading time: 5 minutes The New Hambacher Fest 2018 Those right-wing thugs winding us up again. Good job so few people heard about it. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-05-08 14:35 Words: 2,789; reading time: 12 minutes Updated on 2018-05-10 Scrapbook for April King Louis | Pallywood | The art of wellbeing tour | Sun Queen nuts | Germany: Toddlers mixing paint | Patience Posted on UTC 2018-04-01 02:01 Words: 669; reading time: 3 minutes 20 April 1945: Hitler's last birthday The Klemperers' refugee flight during the last months of the Nazi regime. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-04-20 06:32 Words: 13,387; reading time: 60 minutes Dr Groddeck will see you now Our Easter special: a psychoanalyst's view of Jan Davidszoon de Heem's Still life with bird's nest. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-04-01 07:22 Words: 2,249; reading time: 10 minutes Scrapbook for March The cloud of unknowing | Nerve gas: you ask, we answer. | The cheque's in the post | Amelia Earhart | Persil Man | Dog-bites-man Posted on UTC 2018-03-01 02:01 Words: 1,139; reading time: 5 minutes 21 March 1918: Operation Michael The beginning of the end of the First World War, one hundred years ago. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-03-20 07:22 Words: 1,714; reading time: 7 minutes The Sound of Martial Music Seven days in March eighty years ago: the Austrian Anschluss. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-03-06 07:03 Words: 10,056; reading time: 45 minutes Updated on 2018-03-24 Scrapbook for February Dementia and alcohol | A new dawn breaks | Deplorable fake news | Not so grand Coalition | Germany: Grand Coalition defined | Cuprinol Man Posted on UTC 2018-02-01 02:01 Words: 1,699; reading time: 7 minutes '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 Richard Law on UTC 2018-02-27 10:43 Words: 1,966; reading time: 8 minutes 22 February 1943: the White Rose Hans and Sophie Scholl, Christoph Probst: guillotined on this day 75 years ago. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-02-24 15:33 Words: 950; reading time: 4 minutes Martin… er… who? The German Foreign Minister for 36 hours. Gone and soon to be completely forgotten. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-02-10 10:14 Words: 515; reading time: 2 minutes Updated on 2018-02-10 Desperately hating Donald The German-speaking media opines on President Trump's SOTUS speech. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-02-02 22:19 Words: 4,993; reading time: 22 minutes Updated on 2018-02-07 Scrapbook for January Germany: no change – as usual | The End of the Rainbow | A word to the wise | Ordinary Passengers | Our solitary aspen cluster | NHS excuse of the week | Envy-of-the-World™ – no change | Warpaint | Eight dummies and a funeral Posted on UTC 2018-01-01 02:01 Words: 1,438; reading time: 6 minutes Mistrust of strangers Too late for Mia Valentin. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-01-05 08:23 Words: 2,757; reading time: 12 minutes Updated on 2018-09-18 New Year's greetings from the fuzz The police in Cologne spreading happiness around. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-01-02 16:40 Words: 612; reading time: 2 minutes Were the Nazis left-wing extremists? Yes. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2018-01-01 07:03 Words: 1,682; reading time: 7 minutes Scrapbook for December 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity' | You have been warned! | A puzzle we can answer | Every terror cloud has a silver lining | Grumpy Monday | Dim and Dhimmi | Judith: not to be messed with Posted on UTC 2017-12-01 02:01 Words: 845; reading time: 3 minutes Martin Schulz and the New European Order Berlusconi, Bloom and Beppe were right – just ask the Hungarians. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-12-16 18:00 Words: 782; reading time: 3 minutes Squaring circles in Berlin Or political Venn diagrams with no overlaps. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-11-22 11:14 Words: 1,439; reading time: 6 minutes Updated on 2017-11-27 The UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn Ten days of conspicuous consumption come to an end. Good riddance. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-11-21 14:45 Words: 1,024; reading time: 4 minutes No change, please – we're not Jamaicans This gripping German soap: we can't stand the tension! Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-11-20 10:14 Words: 828; reading time: 3 minutes Scrapbook for October CSI: Las Vegas – Crime Scene Incompetence | More days of autumn | British beer | Stag hunting | The twelve days of autumn | Swiss family picnic | Dice rolling by a skilled opponent | The unseen cost of wind [energy] Posted on UTC 2017-10-01 02:01 Words: 1,269; reading time: 5 minutes Scrapbook for September Last supper [updated] | A century of progress | Please, Lord, let they handmaid depart in peace (ASAP). | Keeping an eye on the Germans | The school run – alpine style | How to become a published author Posted on UTC 2017-09-01 02:01 Words: 726; reading time: 3 minutes The AfD: the uncouth, the amateur, the gormless. Still better than the others, though. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-09-26 10:12 Words: 1,876; reading time: 8 minutes Updated on 2017-09-30 No change, please – we're German Waiting for Brünnhilde to finish – but why bother? The ending is always the same. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-09-25 09:14 Words: 1,711; reading time: 7 minutes Updated on 2017-10-17 Gratitude: the cement of civilisation Thank you, ancestors, for all you have done for us. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-08-08 15:40 Words: 575; reading time: 2 minutes The German connection 100 years ago, on 17 July 1917, the Windsors emerged into a grateful world. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-07-01 16:15 Words: 768; reading time: 3 minutes Scrapbook for June Progress Illinois Style | Arnie's smallest audience | Dim and dimmer | Pulling teeth | Summer solstice | Trump: the first five months | North update: no hope | Steady as she goes | Jack of all trades, master of none | The art of political survival | No wheels on her waggon | Tesla – makes your hair stand on end | Hung parliament, unfortunately not properly | Swedish National Day | One proxy reconstruction doth not a denial make. Fifty-eight: probably | Smile, you're on Candid Camera | Lucky Lukens | Enough is enough | Breakfast like an emperor Posted on UTC 2017-06-01 02:01 Words: 3,931; reading time: 17 minutes Zurich-Petrograd, one-way A hundred years ago in April, a decisive moment in history. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-03-16 18:54 Words: 8,944; reading time: 40 minutes Updated on 2017-11-19 Scrapbook for February Jack of all trades… | Site changes | Samoyeds | Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, reloaded | Scandi noir blacker humour | The Envy-of-the-World™, again | The madness of Prince Charlie | Scandi noir black humour | John Bates, whistleblower | Whose side is North on? | Myron Ebell at the GWPF | Sir Detail and friend | Snowflakes of the month Posted on UTC 2017-02-01 02:01 Words: 2,664; reading time: 12 minutes Scrapbook for January Wimmin's busts | Faking it | Swiss snowflakes losing it | George Mikes: an oldie but goldie | Two simple questions that men cannot answer | The poor Hamburger, the poor Berliner | Rail travel costs Posted on UTC 2017-01-01 02:01 Words: 1,352; reading time: 6 minutes We'll do it our way Blaming the Amis the European way. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2017-01-19 10:26 Words: 1,004; reading time: 4 minutes Scrapbook for December Editor's note | Himmel und Hölle | Another mystery of modern life | Turning spare kids into money | Shutting stable doors | FoS website change | Testing for Microsoft | Thank you, President Putin! Posted on UTC 2016-12-01 02:01 Words: 1,481; reading time: 6 minutes Man and machine The Bad Aibling rail crash 09.02.2016: the idiot who operated the system, and the idiots who designed it. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-11-11 17:43 Words: 615; reading time: 2 minutes Scrapbook for June Leave means leave | Jo Cox™: the people speak | Hitting nail on head time | Jo Cox™ | Journalist falls off bar stool | Richard North's posting pause | Mark of respect | Nutjob loners | The funeral parlour | Gotthard conundrum | Envy-of-the-World™ | Gotthard tunnel. Gotthard tunnel? | Brown people Posted on UTC 2016-06-01 02:01 Words: 2,375; reading time: 10 minutes Sahra[sic] Wagenknecht Neo-Stalinist political lunatic of the first order; a fantasist, too. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-06-01 08:31 Words: 1,343; reading time: 6 minutes Scrapbook for May Equation | Not a good end | The Donald | How to feel inadequate | Unbalanced revulsion | Le Temps des cerises Posted on UTC 2016-05-01 02:01 Words: 1,031; reading time: 4 minutes European wars Your cut-out-and-keep guide, specially designed for the use of British Prime Ministers. Posted by Richard Law on UTC 2016-05-10 14:54 Words: 338; reading time: 1 minute
