There, nailed it for you.
Let them eat cake, 2022 style
One morning at the train station, I saw this spoof campaign poster featuring Christian Lindner as he channels Marie Antoinette
Category: Politics
Gespräch mit dem WDR über die AfD und das (Nicht-)Thema Inflation
Mit dem WDR habe ich ausführlich darüber gesprochen, warum die AfD nicht von der steigenden Inflation profitiert. Nachhören kann man das hier 👇 https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/wdr-5-politikum-gespraech/zieht-nicht-die-afd-und-die-inflation/wdr-5/10588975/
No Putsch in the #AfD
Earlier this year, Jörg Meuthen resigned from his post as co-leader of the AfD and, like two of his predecessors, also left the party. Meuthen, an academic economist, had become a co-leader in 2015 following Lucke’s ouster and had been billed as a representative of the AfD’s ‘moderate’, economically liberal and fiscally conservative faction. Like…
Cas Mudde and I talk about the 2021 German federal elections
Cas Mudde and I discuss the 2021 German federal elections
How good/bad were the 2017 German election polls?
People mock pollsters whose findings they don’t like. Here is a totally unbiased look at how well eight major companies did in the 2017 elections
MLPD: the internationalist boys are back in town
Everyone who cares about German elections is very excited by now, because it’s just over a week until election day. And I realise that I have not blogged about this election at all. One reason is that I have not set up a poll aggregator this time round. There are enough better-run sites doing this…
A guide to Alternative for Germany’s donation scandals
Update June 24, 2021 German prosecutors have asked the European Parliament to lift Meuthen’s immunity. In other words, the co-leader of the self-styled law-and-order party has become the object of a criminal investigation. Update April 19, 2019 The prosecutor for Berlin is investigating the AfD’s treasurer over support the party received from the association-for-whatnot (see…
I tricked the algo, and now I need a new hip
Computer assisted surveillance is baked into the design of our apps and devices. Sometimes its results are mildly funny.