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  • Erste Fotos von dem “wieder eingenommenen” Räumen unter den Arkaden des West Ways, North Kensington. Text zur Story http://www.taz.de/Nach-dem-Hochhausbrand-in-London/!5467719/ Pictures of the reclaimed space under the West Way For full story see post Grenfell, six months later              

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  • Grenfell, six months later

    Grenfell Tower, six months later Squatting action under the motorway, Political Requests, Self-help: The Survivors and Residents of the London high-rise fire demand not to be any longer victims.   This article was originally published in taz, die Tageszeitung (online taz.de), Germany’s independent left of centre daily and national broadsheet newspaper on 14/12/2017. See here http://taz.de/Nach-dem-Hochhausbrand-in-London/!5467719/

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  • Heute steht in der Jüdischen Allgemeinen mein Treffen mit Sam Pivnik, ZT’L  eines der letzten, die er machte. Und auch er war einer der Letzten, die noch lebten, einer jener wenigen, die Auschwitz überlebt hatten. Der Text war nicht als Nachruf gedacht, sondern als Porträt, doch Pivnik verstarb leider letzte Woche zwei Tage vor seinem

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  • North Kensington is not your average residential area. It seems much more as the essence of the potential that London can give. .. A community in which people of all backgrounds grew together, and who have any reason to be celebrated by others in one of the biggest parties of the world, actually.  Never lesser…

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  • Originally posted on Kings Cross Environment: In spite of not one, or two, but three expensive consultations since the 1990s on changing the gyratory system at Kings Cross, the roads remain race tracks, where cars and motorbikes regularly rev and speed up. Against the real evidence of speed related accidents on Swinton Street, Caledonian Road…

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  • Deutsch: Als in London im August 2016 ein Mensch mit mentalen Problemen eine Messerattacke ausführte, versammelten sich die Weltmedien, und wollten die Ankunft des IS in London verkünden. Es war dann leider nicht so.. ENGLISH I consider my article in the German taz as one of the most important from London in this year. I had meant…

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  • Manchester United?

    Ich zeige hier ein paar ausgesuchte Fotos aus Manchester vom Wochenende nach dem Terror, die meinen ausf[hrlichen Bericht in der taz komplementieren. http://www.taz.de/Die-Auswirkungen-des-Terrors/!5409852/   Here are some photos to complement my feature article in the taz http://www.taz.de/Die-Auswirkungen-des-Terrors/!5409852/

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  • How an episode of the worst in London’s transport gave me a traditional Jewish Passover experience. On Monday my daughter and I were invited for to the first Passover Night at friends who live near Crofton Park, which for us requires a journey from the North of London to the South. I have everything checked

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  • Mein Bericht ist hier in der taz.  My report is here in the German taz https://www.taz.de/Archiv-Suche/!5395409  

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  • These photos compliment my article in taz of Wedesday 22-02-2017 Diese Fotos untermalen meinen Bericht in der taz vom 22 Feb  -2017 Link to full report (German)  / Link zum Bericht  http://www.taz.de/!5382662/    

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  • Ein  Bericht über eine Nachwahl in Großbritannien und die kritiklose Politik gegenüber der nuklearen Industrie. A report about a by-election in Great Britain and politicians who lack even an increment of a critical stance towards the nuclear sector. LINK: http://taz.de/Atomkraft-im-Nordwesten-Englands/!5382462/ Weitere Fotos – Additional Photos    

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  • Dises Jahr war für mich als in London lebender Korrespondent besonders voll. Hier in Großritannien  gab es nicht nur das Brexitreferendum und einen Regierungswechsel nachdem Cameron zurückgetreten war, sonden auch Probleme in der Arbeiterpartei, den 90. Geburtstag von Königin Elizabeth und die Bürgermeisterwahlen in London im Angebot. Vor dem nun berüchtigten EU Referendum zog ich

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  • Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.” This poem by Martin Niemöller, he wrote thinking about what happened in the 19th and 20th century in Europe. However, reflecting on Syria,…

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  • In Sleaford, Lincolnshire, Jim Clarke, a bin man driver wants to enter Westminster at the by election to be held on the 8th of December. He does not only have to win against the tories but also Ukip. The populist out of Europe party wants under their new leader to claim Clarke’s genuine working class

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