Letter of the week: Berlin, open city
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Berlin’s dark past and me
In retracing my family’s steps in the city, I realised becoming German wasn’t as simple as it seemed.
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Fear, lust and paranoia at the Berlin Film Festival
Gaza, free speech and the ascendant far right were unavoidable themes at the 75th Berlinale.
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Germany’s hard-right architecture
Conservatives are reconstructing their own imagined nation.
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Nick Robinson’s Media Notebook: On Berlin’s dark past, and in defence of the Today programme
Gazing down from the Reichstag’s glass dome, I was reminded that Britain is not alone in facing unstable politics.
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The Berlin elite’s Ukraine dilemma
After promising a sea-change in German foreign policy — a Zeitenwende — Olaf Scholz is reverting to type.
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The lesson of the Berlin Wall is that all systems are fragile, but some more than others
Liberal democracy contains the seeds of its own destruction - but also of its own salvation.
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The slacker’s sanctuary: in Berlin, without a job or a plan
A Brexit exile in Berlin tries to adjust to life, and heads to German lessons alongside Polish workers, fashionable Swedes and Syrian…
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