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 73 articles in category 'Germany'. Scrapbook for October Another circuit round the drain in Germany | Bad idea, Donald! Richard Law UTC 2026-10-01 02:01 Words: 596; reading time: 2 minutes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Berlin takeaways No change, as usual, but who knows? Richard Law UTC 2026-09-20 18:40 Words: 1,115; reading time: 5 minutes Updated on 2026-09-21 Niedersachsen takeaways No change, as usual, but who knows? Richard Law UTC 2026-09-15 10:22 Words: 353; reading time: 1 minute Sachsen-Anhalt takeaways No change, as usual, but who knows? Richard Law UTC 2026-09-07 10:22 Words: 1,688; reading time: 7 minutes Scrapbook for August Germany: nothing ever changes | Hiring guidelines Richard Law UTC 2026-08-01 02:01 Words: 436; reading time: 1 minute 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. Richard Law 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. Richard Law UTC 2026-02-20 09:14 Words: 1,085; reading time: 4 minutes Scrapbook for May SchMerz UTC 2025-05-01 02:01 Words: 657; reading time: 2 minutes Last chance for Germany After that, the game's up Richard Law 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 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 UTC 2025-02-01 02:01 Words: 1,844; reading time: 8 minutes Germany crawling The German decline and fall. 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 UTC 2025-01-01 02:01 Words: 390; reading time: 1 minute Scrapbook for September Twisted knickers, German style UTC 2024-09-01 02:01 Words: 435; reading time: 1 minute Germany cracking up Was the reunification of Germany misguided? 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. Richard Law 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 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 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. Richard Law 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. Richard Law 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. Richard Law UTC 2019-09-02 14:18 Words: 1,174; reading time: 5 minutes German solidarity Sticking it to the rich. Richard Law 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. Richard Law 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 UTC 2018-12-01 02:01 Words: 388; reading time: 1 minute Thoughts for the coming year But no tidings of comfort and joy. Richard Law 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 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. Richard Law 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. Richard Law 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' UTC 2018-10-01 02:01 Words: 1,722; reading time: 7 minutes That German right-wing landslide Germany through the looking glass. Richard Law 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. Richard Law 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. Richard Law 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. Richard Law 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. Richard Law UTC 2018-06-20 13:23 Words: 1,892; reading time: 8 minutes Hitler: demon, dummy or smooth operator? Oh no, not him again… Richard Law 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. Richard Law 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 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. Richard Law 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. Richard Law 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 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. Richard Law 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. Richard Law 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 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. Richard Law 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. Richard Law 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. Richard Law 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. Richard Law 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 UTC 2018-01-01 02:01 Words: 1,438; reading time: 6 minutes Mistrust of strangers Too late for Mia Valentin. Richard Law 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. Richard Law UTC 2018-01-02 16:40 Words: 612; reading time: 2 minutes Were the Nazis left-wing extremists? Yes. Richard Law 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 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. Richard Law UTC 2017-12-16 18:00 Words: 782; reading time: 3 minutes Squaring circles in Berlin Or political Venn diagrams with no overlaps. Richard Law 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. Richard Law 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! Richard Law 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] 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 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. Richard Law 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. Richard Law 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. Richard Law 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. Richard Law 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 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. Richard Law 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 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 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. Richard Law 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! 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. Richard Law 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 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. Richard Law 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 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. Richard Law UTC 2016-05-10 14:54 Words: 338; reading time: 1 minute
