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Annette Dittert

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Senior Correspondent ARD London 2008- 2025 • previously Warsaw/New York • Loving London • Living on a Narrowboat • Also writing for Prospect/Blaetter and others.

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This will of course affect all of us. But unlike 2022, since then we personally transitioned to a heat pump and an EV, and I can't help but wonder that the direct economic effects on Europe would be smaller if we had been more forceful in the transition away from fossil fuels.

02.03.2026 06:56 — 👍 138    🔁 31    💬 5    📌 0

They’ll never learn. And it wasn’t just McSweeney then.

01.03.2026 16:57 — 👍 117    🔁 18    💬 10    📌 0

Mir ist durchaus bewusst, dass ich nicht rund um die Uhr die Nachrichten verfolgen muss, aber ich tue es halt trotzdem, weil mein Gehirn mich hasst.

01.03.2026 16:52 — 👍 371    🔁 19    💬 6    📌 1

Sánchez und Merz sind in Sachen Iran zu sehr unterschiedlichen Positionen gekommen. Sánchez sagt, der Angriff sei völkerrechtswidrig, deshalb abzulehnen. Merz behauptet, völkerrechtskonform könne man leider nichts machen (was Schwachsinn ist, siehe JCPoA) - und begrüßt den Krieg.

01.03.2026 16:52 — 👍 39    🔁 10    💬 6    📌 2

Its genuinely mad that we are, arguably, the most successful multicultural state on earth and instead of celebrating that we...

...keep trying to copy nations who have very evidently done worse at it than us

01.03.2026 13:16 — 👍 775    🔁 191    💬 24    📌 9

Thread. Whatever you think about Danish immigration policy the claims made about its impact on politics are just wrong.

01.03.2026 14:07 — 👍 183    🔁 56    💬 3    📌 0
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A Danish lesson for Labour on how to stop migrants and start winning Like the home secretary, I visited recently to learn how the centre-left is riding high and reclaiming the asylum debate from the populist right

Denmark has *far* worse outcomes - economic, social and integration - than the UK.

Just a fantasyland for those who want an excuse for their own xenophobia and/or are incapable of doing the hard work of confronting the UK's real problems.

www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

01.03.2026 09:50 — 👍 611    🔁 155    💬 24    📌 26

Keir Starmer is going to end up with his trademark u-turn here – where it becomes obvious to those paying attention it was entirely forced by backbenchers. So he gets no credit for the u-turn by people who wanted it, and attacked for dropping the policy by others.

01.03.2026 07:42 — 👍 406    🔁 87    💬 23    📌 2
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If ever you needed a front page to capture the crass yet also dangerous silliness of so much of our media, and the impact of right wing nationalism which has done so much harm through a history from which some seem so unable to learn

01.03.2026 06:03 — 👍 1620    🔁 323    💬 96    📌 21

Tag 2 der Luftschläge: Israel und USA werden systematisch weiter Ziele angreifen. Iran ist zwar teilweise enthauptet, Kommandostrukturen funktionieren aber. Iran wird weiter begrenzte Gegenschläge ausführen und wild Material verschießen, damit es nicht am Boden zerstört wird.

01.03.2026 06:04 — 👍 223    🔁 37    💬 7    📌 0

Too many who should know better are backing this war. It wouldn't be happening if a) Trump were a remotely serious president who knew the risks of embarking on something whose aims he still can't specify, and b) Netanyahu wasn't embracing regional chaos as his get out of jail free card.

28.02.2026 21:50 — 👍 735    🔁 194    💬 20    📌 11

The Mail living up to its reputation again.
Vile, racist and deliberately divisive.

28.02.2026 14:38 — 👍 218    🔁 45    💬 10    📌 0
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The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost

28.02.2026 11:03 — 👍 3291    🔁 826    💬 281    📌 129

If you are interesting why these strikes happened right after we received news that the US-Iran talks went reasonably well though without breakthrough, Lord Ricketts has an excellent explainer.

28.02.2026 10:25 — 👍 212    🔁 99    💬 7    📌 2
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In Depth? This is just about the shallowest piece of trash journalism you could write in thirty minutes.

28.02.2026 13:44 — 👍 115    🔁 25    💬 15    📌 4

Extraordinary that in these fractious & divided times, so many of us can unite around the single, simple fact that Matthew Goodwin is an irredeemable twat.

27.02.2026 14:29 — 👍 5059    🔁 681    💬 192    📌 39
The government won’t achieve ‘decency’ over ‘division’ by trying to be Reform Lite
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic The government won’t achieve ‘decency’ over ‘division’ by trying to be Reform Lite

As I said three months ago the government will not achieve ‘decency’ over ‘division’ by trying to be Reform Lite

youtu.be/bl0Lm7v_T18?...

27.02.2026 07:07 — 👍 427    🔁 78    💬 20    📌 1
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Kommentar: Katherina Reiches Bekenntnis zu den Klimazielen ist lächerlich Wer nach dieser Woche noch darauf verweist, die Regierung stehe zu den gesetzlichen CO2-Vorgaben, macht sich unglaubwürdig. Die Wirtschaftsministerin tut alles, um sie zu untergraben.

Das Handelsblatt mit einem klaren Urteil zu den aktuellen Plänen der Koalition:

„Die Diskrepanz zwischen dem, was die Bundesregierung verspricht, und dem, was sie tut, wird gerade unerträglich.“

www.handelsblatt.com/meinung/komm...

27.02.2026 11:21 — 👍 1931    🔁 722    💬 81    📌 28

😅👍

27.02.2026 15:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congrats ! Although it sounds like you’ll have to rewrite it quite a few times before publishing day ..😉🙋🏻‍♀️

27.02.2026 15:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Netflix backs out of Warner Bros. purchase, clearing a path for Paramount The streaming giant said it would not raise its bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, potentially allowing Paramount Skydance to take over the studio.

This is the Orban playbook: use state power to transfer media assets into the hands of pro-regime tycoons.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

26.02.2026 23:51 — 👍 148    🔁 57    💬 5    📌 1
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Klimapolitik der Bundesregierung: So begräbt die Regierung ihre Klimaziele In nur neun Monaten hat die Koalition den Klimaschutz enorm geschwächt und vieles abgeräumt, was mühsam erkämpft worden ist. Sie folgt einer alten Merkel-Regel.

Die Bundesregierung verabschiedet sich mit Schwung den Klimazielen, ohne das Offensichtliche zuzugeben. Es fehlen einem die Worte. @pinzler.bsky.social hat trotzdem Worte gefunden. Harte Worte www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

26.02.2026 09:09 — 👍 223    🔁 75    💬 11    📌 1
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Berlinale-Chefin Tuttle bleibt vorerst im Amt: Symptome einer Kampagnisierung Die deutsche Bundesregierung bestätigt Tricia Tuttle als Berlinale-Direktorin, will das "Gespräch" mit ihr aber fortsetzen. Mehr Gelassenheit wäre angebracht

Bert Rebhandl: „In den nächsten Tagen wird sich zeigen, ob der provinzielle Widerstand gegen eine international exzellent vernetzte und auch in den globalen Diskursen heimische Direktorin sich als mächtiger erweist als das nahezu einhellige Votum der Branche.“ www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

26.02.2026 15:08 — 👍 29    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0

This move is a declaration of war on UK-European families like mine and makes joint trips to the UK impossible for the foreseeable future. It was abysmally communicated. The message from this Labour (!) government to the British diaspora: f-off and don’t come back.

22.02.2026 19:50 — 👍 90    🔁 25    💬 10    📌 2

Einmal so komfortabel nach oben gecancelt und öffentlich getröstet werden wie ein mediokrer weißer Journo-Bro.

22.02.2026 13:29 — 👍 704    🔁 66    💬 3    📌 4
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The Musk family are actively endorsing Restore Britain, a party the racist Reform UK considers excessively racist, whose slogan is “millions must go” and whose leaders call for the expulsion of Britons of darker skin or Jewish, Muslim or otherwise non-Christian faith

21.02.2026 01:08 — 👍 1124    🔁 466    💬 85    📌 115

If he thought they were going to win the by-election, would he be in the Maldives? 🤔

22.02.2026 11:29 — 👍 173    🔁 39    💬 16    📌 2
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Bernd & Hilla Becher show at Spruth Magers in London is phenomenal.

22.02.2026 08:42 — 👍 98    🔁 14    💬 7    📌 0
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Insightful reporting by David Allen Green at the Financial Times on why Palantir data-analytics defence contracts with UK government should raise concern.

21.02.2026 08:05 — 👍 385    🔁 172    💬 12    📌 13