Minorities at risk

Anti-migrant hate and xenophobia flourish in the ‘time of cowards’

Musa Okwonga

When I think of German democracy, I think of the Larsen B ice shelf: a vast Antarctic structure that remained stable for 10,000 years until – in just over a month, to the horror of shocked onlookers – it collapsed catastrophically. Before last weekend’s election, the coalition led by the centre-left Social Democratic party (SPD) fell apart thanks in no small part to the continual attempts at sabotage by the Free Democratic party (FDP), its most junior member. Yet the other two coalition parties were also culpable – the Greens, who failed to articulate a compelling enough vision for a future with clean energy, and the SPD itself, whose leader, Olaf Scholz, the chancellor, was mostly as invisible as his predecessor, Angela Merkel, was imposing. Having lived and worked in…

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Guardian Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, 28 February 2025

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