Daftness from TheLocal as we find that people are doing what people always do with office furniture – except now with stopwatches. The newspaper even files it under their “Sports” section which seems unnecessarily like taking the piss. Luxembourger Pierre Feller beat out the homegrown talent to win the downhill […]

Everybody knows that on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, the guns fell silent across Europe with the cease fire concluding the hostilities of World War I. But Germany has continued pay for the First World War through its obligations under the 1919 […]

Following yesterday’s election by the Germany’s Federal Assembly of Christian Wulff as their new President, as is usual in these cases everyone shuffles up one position. What’s interesting is who replaces him as Premier of the northern German state of Lower Saxony.. It’s a not-very-German sounding chap by the name […]

After the moves to ban burquas in some countries across the continent of Europe comes the backlash against the backlash. And does anything sound familiar about appointing a token Muslim female to head up a social cohesion drive? *cough* Baroness Warsi *cough* The designated social minister in Lower Saxony – Germany’s […]

Apologies for the awful headline but couldn’t resist. Anyway, nearly three quarters of Germans fear the spread of Islam, according to a survey released on Friday. ADVERTISING A poll by Infratest dimap for public broadcaster ARD showed a third of those asked expressed great concern that Islam was growing too […]

With eyes on the continuing trial of 89-year-old John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian-born former guard at the Sobibor death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland in Munich for allegedly aiding in the gas chamber deaths of some 27,900 Jews in 1943 another similar trial in progress is being overlooked. But developments there are […]

Following the Swiss referendum to ban mosques with minarets, Christian Democratic state interior ministers in Germany on Thursday recommended Muslims show “restraint” when building houses of worship. “Naturally the Muslims in Germany have a right to build mosques. But they should make sure not to overwhelm the German population with them” […]

All Seeing Eye runs an occasional Where Are They Now series and in the past we’ve caught up, if that’s the right phrase, with the Iraqi shoe-thrower, the Washington Sniper, the father in the Jacko case and several others. Tonight, following on from a post on the highly recommended Subrosa blog the other […]

Gordoom will be furious, and Nokia sales will be up this afternoon. He would kill all the firstborn for similar comments from the US ambassador here, and Heaven only knows what he’d give for a photo-op like this. The subject of our Prime Mentalist’s rage today will be one Philip […]

From the Didn’t Know That Department comes a disturbing tale of how unwanted babies are dealt with in Germany. TheEye confesses to complete ignorace up until today of the existence of Baby Hatches – where newborns can be disposed of in much the same physical way as you’d put rubbish […]