About PEGIDA – Alison Smale

Alison Smale (The New York Times) Pegida first caught my attention in late November, when I read in German media that there were peaceful rallies taking place each Monday in Dresden. They were attracting ever…

David Charter (The Times)

For the first time in 100 years, neither the centre right Conservatives nor centre left Labour Party won a nation election in Britain. The triumph of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in the European Parliament…

Alison Smale – New York Times

During decades of observing Germans and Americans, I have often wondered what might have happened if, as was almost the case, the early settlers in the United States had adopted not English but German as…