It was within the scope of the Panama Papers affair that in April 2016 an English journalist confronted the British Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr Osbourne with the repeatedly raised question of what he had to do with so-called offshore activities until the non-respondent broke off the television interview. That would be unthinkable in Germany and shows the wretchedness of the intellectual level in Germany. But this way, at the same time a German Chancellor of Exchequer could pretend that he had virtually no knowledge whatsoever of this affair, thus involving that everything was at best back home in Germany: If you don’t know what you are talking about, just shut up, Mr Schäuble, and the like, for instance Mr Gauck! weiterlesen →

© Collage by Joachim Endemann, using the title page of Private Eye, London, issue: 1 – 14 April, 2016; the cover page of a collection of writings of George Orwell (containing Why I Write, The Lion and the Unicorn, A Hanging, Politics and the English Language) which is the number 20 of the book series Great Ideas of Penguin Books, London, as part of this series first published in 2004; and Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, as number 95 of this Penguin books series, this selection of writings of Tagore (Nationalism in Japan, Nationalism in the West, Nationalism in India) was first published in 2010.

. . . : Do we have to accept fewer refugees? Do we have to accept more refugees?

The only right answer has to be:

We do need a different policy

(__in the sense of a global approach__)

for without its politics so falsely practised the reasons for asking these questions would not arise.

These reasons can be found in the articles written on NetColumnist.org. The whole lot is expressed, nothing is to be added in order to avoid a repetition, for everything that has happened politically is based on these reasons — or put in another way:

“Fiction covers action”.

Yours faithfully
Joachim Endemann