The German labour minister’s attack on the country’ss supposedly “grey” and “brown” citizens exposes how far her party has drifted from the people it once claimed to represent.
A feminist charged with “insult” for calling a man identifying as a woman a “man” was told she should have used the phrase “woman with a penis.”
For all the official rhetoric about caring for the poor, their interests have been sacrificed on the altar of energy-efficiency targets and green ideology.
As an experiment in globalist technocracy, Bosnia and Herzegovina has had a far wider influence than many care to acknowledge.
Rather than lifting us out of our current political trench warfare, the dispute over a reference to God in the Saarland constitutional preamble merely illuminates it.
Saxony-Anhalt’s AfD seeks healthy national pride through patriotic cultural policy. The establishment calls it fascism.
In a democracy, citizens must have the right to express their frustration with those who govern them.
The effort to ‘AfD-proof’ Saxony-Anhalt is only the latest in a series of measures taken over recent months and years to weaken and marginalise the populists.
It is a telling sign of our times that a movement claiming to oppose racism relies so heavily on censorship.
Because it is the religious Right that has been the most unapologetic defender of classical Christian values, church leaders now find it difficult to articulate those values at all.
The party that was once—for better or worse—seen as a vehicle for popular representation has become an obstacle to democratic change.
The last thing Berlin needs is a day against Islamophobia—what it does need is better politicians.
