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Native Tongue-tied

Learning a foreign tongue opens up an entirely new spectrum of cultural rewards, yet state schools are failing to emphasise their importance

February 21, 2012

Culture & Anarchy·Education·Language

Chance Really Is A Fine Thing

Without random events the laws of physics could not operate

February 21, 2012

Cosmos·Science

Kosher Craze

‘Their grandparents fled the Nazis, their parents boycotted all things German, but their children are flocking to Berlin’

February 21, 2012

European Eye·Germany·Judaism

Web Only: The Asymmetry of Racism Awareness

The Church of England's decision not to censure Rev. Stephen Sizer highlights its, and wider society's, reluctance to condemn anti-Semitic bigotry

February 9, 2012

Features·Judaism·The Church of England

Lax on Tax

'Germans are obsessed with paying taxes - they are affronted by any state with little or not taxation - such as the British Virgin Islands'

December 20, 2011

European Eye·Taxation

Italian Insouciance

The over-generous Italian welfare state means that for all the belt-tightening, most people in the country still enjoy la dolce vita

December 20, 2011

Counterpoints·Economy·EU·Italy

Gift for Greece

Spirit of London 2012? The best thing that could happen to the Olympic Games would be to send them home

December 20, 2011

Counterpoints·Sport

Survivor of Stasiland

The death of Christa Wolf has left Germany bereft of a powerful bridge of literary consciousness, whose universal work could talk to a once-divided nation

December 20, 2011

Counterpoints·Germany·Literature

Powell’s Penpal

A new limited-edition paperback documents the charming correspondence between US book collector Robert Vanderbilt and Anthony Powell

December 20, 2011

Counterpoints·Literature

Fussball über alles

The German film Der Ganz Grosse Traum shows the delightful story of the first Anglo-German conflict (football match, that is)

December 20, 2011

Counterpoints·Sport

Don’t Mention the War

Book review of The Wartime Journals by Hugh Trevor-Roper; edited by Richard Davenport-Hines

December 20, 2011

Academia·Books·History

It Was All Rot About All Souls

Book review of All Souls and the Wider World edited by S.J.D. Green and Peregrine Horden

December 20, 2011

Academia·Books·History

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