Before Christmas I was travelling to visit my mum. At London Heathrow it turned out that my flight to Berlin had been cancelled. After two hours standing in a queue I was offered another flight to my destination, but with a different airline from a different terminal. I accepted the offer and then was told to use a train the…

Last Friday there was an awarding ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize for a Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo. As we know, there was just an empty armchair left for him because he’s been jailed by Chinese authorities. The awarded man is one of many people detained due their non-violent opposition against oppressive laws or governments. For the last…

‘Public services are better prepared for wintry weather than previously’. Then the winter came up and almost everybody complains about untreated roads and pavements covered with snow. The given explanation was simple: this wintry weather approached sooner than we’d expected. So public services were caught by surprise. Three years ago nobody expected the worldwide financial crisis. People saw their future…