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As seen on Sonnenallee in Neukölln....Hände hoch! (my montage BTW, it was just the sign on the right that caught my attention!)

I'm not really sure what the point of your argument is any more to be honest... The facts remain... AfD support is growing so established parties need to look at why and do something about it. The current government has the opportunity NOW to address those concerns and seems unable to do it, theref...

I’m not arguing that a proposal automatically becomes wrong because the AfD supports it. If you cherry-pick individual policy details, there will obviously be areas of consensus. The heating law is a reasonable example: if a measure is unaffordable or unsuitable for certain buildings, revising it an...

I say this every time AfD comes up in conversation... if the established parties want to counter the 'threat' of the AfD, they need to actually listen to the population and implement some of the AfD's proposed policies. Cameron did the same thing to counter UKIP (Farage again) when they were pushin...

To be honest if Reform get into power it will probably finally be worth my while renouncing my UK citizenship. I don't want to be part of a country that could vote that way. Presumably you already have German citizenship? But all is not well here, either. Unlike Reform, the AFD is not dependent on ...

Another enlightened intervention by Farage's Reform party that, if implemented, would disadvantage British citizens living across the EU. Of course it's by no means certain, if even likely, that they will come to power in the UK, but I have occasionally met UKIP/Brexit/Reform inclined clowns here in...

Well that was fun! The other day Schweinsteiger was complaining (not incorrectly) that the England vs Ghana game was boring, but at least they held it to a 0:0 draw...whereas here it was a really dynamic game that made the Ecuador fans whoop with joy at the result...

Very boring game indeed. Kudos to Ghana for holding one of the favoured teams to a nil nil draw.

4:2 fine by me. Harry Kane is a force of nature!

And a list of bars/spätis where you can watch every game with a home crowd....

https://www.heistberlin.com/berlin-worl ... koff-bars/

FWIW here are the Public Viewing locations in Berlin

https://www.berlin.de/kultur-und-ticket ... ng-berlin/

Check out https://www.meetup.com

There seem to be quite a few knitting events in and around Berlin.

https://www.meetup.com/find/?keywords=k ... rce=EVENTS

Upgrade from DSL to Glasfaser ordered from Telekom mid April, connection date should have been today (window of 10.00-14.00), however email arrived at 12.47 announcing a cancellation. No apology, just this flannel... :( Um den Glasfaser-Ausbau in Ihrer Region abzuschließen, arbeiten wir mit einem ne...

In March 2025, I made voluntary back payments to UK National Insurance Contributions (NICs) in order to fill gaps in my UK pension record. The total amount was just under £3K and was paid before the deadline to HMRC. The payment covered multiple years retrospectively, from 2006 to 2024, and was sole...

Summary here https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/50-prozent-weniger-fluge-von-und-nach-berlin-ryanair-zieht-sich-wegen-hoher-kosten-vom-ber-zuruck-15518636.html Probably because of Lufthansa's de facto monopoly? Some on social media are describing this as a "catastrophe" :shock: but this ma...

Last weekend I went on a countryside walk with a friend. I took the liberty to move this topic to "Berlin", as the tipping etiquette in Germany is not the same everywhere. Berlin is special, it ain't the Germany standard... FWIW "countryside walk" could easily mean Brandenburg, ...

Fair enough — scepticism about politicians promising ‘clean government’ is entirely justified. That’s a constant, not a Hungarian speciality. But that cuts both ways. If you don’t believe Magyar when he talks about reducing corruption, it’s a bit odd to treat the setup under Orbán as some kind of kn...

That’s actually a more interesting take than most of what you’ve been saying — but it cuts a different way than you think. If Magyar can attract Orbán voters without changing core positions, that suggests the issue isn’t some grand ideological battle being ‘won’, but that Orbán’s system has become t...

Yeah yeah, nice try, but that’s not the argument. The point isn’t ‘buy Russian gas via someone else’ — it’s diversify away from Russia altogether. LNG ≠ Russian by default. The whole strategy since 2022 has been to replace Russian pipeline gas with global supply (US, Qatar, Norway, etc.) routed thro...