Hinterfragen: asking questions.

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 3rd October 2024 ### Dear Editor, For a long time now I have been massively bemused by Germany’s dogmatic support for Israel: Yes, Israel did suffer horrific aggression on 7th October 2023 but the continued reluctance of both German politicians and media to comment objectively on the on-going blood-bath…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 1st. October 2024 ### Dear Editor, I read Sandra Laville’s article (The Guardian, 1 October 2024, link below) on the supermarkets’ schemes for plastic return and recycling (or burning) and also share the skepticism of some of the contributors. My belief is that, rather than recycling, it should be…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 24th September 2024 ### Dear Editor, I read Fleur Britten’s piece on Fast Fashion (The Guardian, 24th September 2024, link below) and found myself nodding all the way through. Indeed, yes, fast fashion and indulgent over-consumption are scourges of modern times. A couple of years ago I too visited…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 21st September 2024 ### Dear Editor, So, with the third regional election here in Germany coming up tomorrow (in Brandenburg) people are asking themselves why the AfD and BSW (Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance) are riding so high? With the media here frantically trying to paint supporters of those two parties…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 20th September 2024 ### Dear Editor, I read Dan Milmo’s piece on AI (with quotes from Debbie Weinstein of Google, The Guardian, 19th September 2024, link below) and feel extremely dubious about the deregulation being proposed. Google is probably right that countries which do not invest/allow development will be…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 9th September 2024 ### * Key Players: Fiona Harvey, Ashifa Kassam, Katja Hoyer, Philip Oltermann, Hanno Hauenstein, James Hawes * Dear Editor, As the dust settles on the regional elections in Eastern Germany, I stumbled upon a report (in Aljazeera, link below) stating that Germany is considering deporting migrants…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 8th September 2024 ### * Key people: John Naughton * Dear Editor, A recent item in Germany’s “Tagesschau” (mainstream news, link below) reminded me of John Naughton’s article on delivery drones, “technological determinism” and our acquiescence to “new” (The Observer, 10th August 2024, link below) …  It looks like…

### Reader’s letter to The Guardian, 3rd September 2024 ###** Key People: Jennifer Rankin, Valerie Hayer, Mattia Bagherini, Maurice Stierl, Tarik Abou-chadi ** Dear Editor, I read Jennifer Rankin’s article (The Guardian, 3rd September 2024, link below) on the AfD’s success, the “pressure on a fragmented EU” and “The European Project” and, unfortunately have to…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 2nd September 2024 ### Dear Editor, So Germany is in upheaval about the gains of the AfD (and BSW). I live in Cologne so did not vote in either of the elections on Sunday. But, in both prior coverage and in the current postmortem, there are two enormous elephants…

### Reader’s Letter to The Guardian, 31st August 2024 ### Dear Editor, With the elections in Thuringia tomorrow, Germany certainly has moved into a very weird place … All this morning we have been listening to WDR5, a mainstream radio-station, with the news seemingly “stuck on repeat” on a number of “Standard Hobby-Horses”: That is…