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Mittwoch, 10. November 2021
Freitag, 1. Oktober 2021
Montag, 19. Juli 2021
Wrecking Ball Francis
Wenn – weil er angeblich veraltet ist – ein uralter Ritus der Sufis oder ein zen-buddhistische oder zoroastrische Liturgieform von irgendwelchen Autoritäten verboten werden würde (denn es ist de facto ein Verbot, was dieses Motu proprio des Heiligen Vaters hinsichtlich des Tridentinischen Ritus der Römisch-Katholischen Kirche erwirkt, hier die deutsche Presse-Verlautbarung des Vatikan), würde dies die Weltöffentlichkeit zu Recht als Akt des kulturellen Vandalismus beklagen.
Vielleicht täte man gut daran, den sogenannten "lateinisch" Ritus einfach unter das Dach des zu bewahrenden Weltkulturerbes zu stellen. Stand jetzt wäre er unter den Auspizien der UNESCO sicherer als unter jenen des gegenwärtigen Nachfolger Petri.
Hier ein interessanter Podcast zu dem Thema aus der "Holy Smoke"-Reihe des "Spectator" und hier ein Text von Tim Stanley aus eben jener Wochenzeitschrift (leider hinter der Pay Wall). In wenigen Tagen wird sich (vermutlich) auch Ross Douthat in der NYT zu Wort melden. Ich schiebe das dann ggf. hier ______ nach.
Und hier noch meine WSNLM-Kolumne in der gedruckten BILD, in der ich das Thema streife:
Mittwoch, 13. Januar 2021
Carl Laszlo – Der Basler Beatnik
Die 3sat-Kulturzeit hat heute einen sehr schönen Beitrag über meinen 2013 verstorbenen Freund Carl Laszlo und dessen neu aufgelegtes Buch "Ferien am Waldsee" gesendet. Please watch, HIER klicken!
Sonntag, 10. Januar 2021
Freitag, 8. Januar 2021
In eigener Sache
Dienstag, 29. Dezember 2020
Done and dusted #Brexit
Huge relief for Britain. Huge triumph for Boris. All the doom mongers have been proven wrong. As everyone is fed up with this subject after four gruesome years, here are – for the very last time – a few words on the dreaded subject #Brexit written from German perspective.
By the way: We Germans gladly take the credit for having rescued the deal – however Merkel's role tends to be overestimated. She remained astoundingly hands off in this whole affair. Apparently Her Majesty's Ambassador in Berlin, Sir Sebastian Wood, had asked several times for a meeting with the Chancellor's EU-policy adviser and was rebuffed every time. Then again: Frau Merkel's style of governing is not famed for its' transparency. Her modus operandi is invisible. Furthermore, there is no denying that German EU diplomacy (and possibly even the personal rapport between BJ and UvdL) played a role in making the French climb down from some of their more ambitious demands.
If you ask me, to the largest extent this success is due to the fact though that Brussels was faced with a credible Brexiteer PM whose determination to walk away from the talks remained real until the very last moment, a PM with an overwhelming majority in the Commons, someone they could not push around like his predecessors. All this plus the determination of the UK negotiating team headed by the remarkable Sir David Frost.
So here it is: My last piece ever on #Brexit. It is in German, so shove it through GoogleTranslate, you will get the gist of it. And here is another one for the Daily Mail on why it took a flamboyant disrupter to end years – no decades – of agony about if and how the UK should be part of the European project. Finally, there is certainty and we can turn our attention to more pressing matters.
Below you find my lead editorial in today's BILD blowing Boris's trumpet.
Here is a rough translation:
World history has just happened in the shadow of the Corona crisis. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, often ridiculed by our opinionated elite as a juggler and joker, has led his country out of the EU. And that without being forced into economic self-mutilation.
For years, all supposedly sensible pundits have told us that Brexit will mean doom for Britain. Now they have to eat their words.
What does that tell us?
Two things: politicians like Johnson who don't fit into the technocrat’s grit are those who sometimes are able to make the impossible possible. Just because someone has tangled hair, wears funny ties, and speaks the language of the regulars doesn't mean they can't be a statesman of historic importance.
The second thing: Let us remain skeptical when doom mongers predict that everything will go down the drain if we do not listen to them at once. They are almost always wrong.











