Joshua Freedman
Playing word association with free speech
A number of German news sources, including the leading newspapers Die Zeit and Der Tagesspiegel, have been reporting last night’s Union forum as a...
Wealth redistribution, NBA-style
Did you hear the one about the hacks, the socialists and the huge tombola prize? Well here you go. Friday night saw the Bundespresseball,...
Coalition: Impossible. Coming to a parliament near you
Der Spiegel has produced a corker. Its latest front cover splashes the Mona Lisa with the face of centre-right Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose coalition...
For heaven’s sake, why doesn’t anyone update 24?
I was excited to come across this page on N24.de, the website of one of Germany's two main 24-hour news channels. (The other one's...
9/11: 18 years on
Today marks 18 years since the Berlin Wall fell, and the national debate — are things better for it? — rolls absurdly on. As...
Why Germany’s recycling obsession just stinks
The vogue topic in Germany is the environment. You never stop hearing about it. You can't even get a plastic bag in the supermarket...
Do you know your Bremens from your Dellstedts?
One for the anoraks this. The Sueddeutsche are running a taxing (geddit?) German number plates quiz and even have a contraption to produce a...
Blog standard
I recommend this story from The Times. It'll have you, er, rolling with laughter. Cherwell 24 is not responsible for the content of external links....
‘Cannot tell their left hand from their right’
That's how the people of Nineveh are described the Book of Jonah, but we might equally claim it about the Germans. Or at least...
A photo? Shock! Horror!
Get this. The German elite are up in arms over the Frankfurter Allgemeine's latest "redesign". If you can call it that.The leading national paper,...
German humour, part 2
A bit better this. The originally-named satirical blog Satire Blog thinks the top dogs should rename Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport "Willy Brandt Airport", "Helmut Kohl...
German humour, part 1
The usually serious weekly broadsheet Die Zeit has allowed a bit of rare 'humour' to fill its politics pages this week. German speakers might...
Talk some sense, Jens
Germany's favourite war of words is back. Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann has never taking a liking to compatriot Oliver Kahn, who's been competing with...
Oxford’s dreaming bank balance
Oxford University's clearly got its business plan well sorted. Keen Germans have been telling the Süddeutsche Zeitung how much they've being enjoying their pointless,...
