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John Kampfner

  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    Demographics and population
    Canada’s immigration model is coming under strain

    Until now its brand of multiculturalism has set an example to the rest of the developed world

    Robson Street in Vancouver.
  • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Hitler, Stalin, Mum & Dad — a haunting but humorous family history of survival

    Daniel Finkelstein’s account of his ancestors’ experiences of the Holocaust is sobering, elegiac and, at times, even joyful

    A entrance sign to Sobibor
  • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
    ReviewHistory books
    The Stasi Poetry Circle — a cold war of words

    Philip Oltermann’s absorbing portrait of bizarre East German efforts to harness creative writing as a weapon against capitalism

    The secret police ‘gathered in the headquarters of the elite guard once a week to discuss the sonnet’
  • Friday, 24 September, 2021
    Life & Arts
    A close-up view of Germany’s democratic puzzle

    Working as an election observer, John Kampfner takes the temperature of a nation emerging from the Merkel era

  • Monday, 28 June, 2021
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Dangerous Ideas by Eric Berkowitz — how speech has been suppressed through history

    A sprint through two millennia of censorship reflects on how the instincts of kings and courtiers match those of today’s information gatekeepers

  • Tuesday, 22 September, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Why the Germans Do it Better by John Kampfner — paean to a nation

    A highly readable historical account celebrates the achievements of a ‘grown-up country’

  • Wednesday, 16 September, 2020
    Germany
    What Germany teaches the world in a crisis

    Europe’s largest economy has overcome huge challenges in recent decades. John Kampfner goes in pursuit of its secret and finds telling lessons for the fight against Covid

  • Tuesday, 2 June, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Dark Mirror by Barton Gellman — the story of the Snowden scoop

    An investigative journalist looks back at the intrigue and impact of the NSA snooping bombshell

    epa04528985 NSA-whistleblower Edward Snowden waves on the screen during the 2014 Carl von Ossietzky Medal ceremony by the International League for Human Rights, in Berlin, Germany, 14 December 2014. The medal, named after German pacifist and 1935 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Carl von Ossietzky (1889-1938), is awarded annually. Snowden shares the prize with US documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras and US journalist Glenn Greenwald.  EPA/WOLFGANG KUMM
  • Friday, 15 November, 2019
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Sandworm — Russia, America and the new era of cyber war

    Andy Greenberg’s chilling account of a Kremlin-led cyber attack, a new front in global conflict

    Abstract digital binary code stream background with you have been hacked inscription in green colors; Shutterstock ID 1557917666; Department: -; Job/Project: -; Employee Name: -
  • Friday, 31 May, 2019
    Life & Arts
    Rhineland diary: from fish to football to the father of Europe

    John Kampfner on German sushi, pints on the Bundesliga terraces and the charms of Charlemagne

  • Friday, 8 March, 2019
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Dreams of Leaving and Remaining by James Meek — Brexit myths

    A collection of intelligently observed dispatches from the frontline of Brexit

  • Friday, 21 September, 2018
    Life & Arts
    Ballet superstar Isaac Hernández’s arts awakening in Mexico

    Creative industries founder John Kampfner on helping bring all of the country’s arts under one roof

    Illustration: John Kampfner’s Mexico City diary
  • Friday, 6 April, 2018
    Life & Arts
    John Kampfner’s Hong Kong diary: Zen and the art of autocracy

    The chief executive of the Creative Industries Federation on promoting British products overseas and the future of the former imperial territory

    Illustration by Bill Butcher
  • Friday, 1 September, 2017
    Life & Arts
    Tuscany Diary: John Kampfner on art and the making of a masterpiece

    I can’t paint. I can’t draw. I can’t even doodle. Everyone can, she insists. It’s all in the mind

    Illustration of Tuscany Diary: John Kampfner
  • Friday, 24 June, 2016
    The Diary
    The Diary: John Kampfner

    Night after night, the champagne flows as corporates vie for the glitziest party on the beach or, better still, on the yacht

  • Wednesday, 25 November, 2015
    UK economy
    Arts world spared from cuts

    Free entry protected for national museums and galleries

  • Monday, 13 July, 2015
    UK politics
    Arts groups make case for investment

    Publicly funded projects act as ‘incubator’ for creative industries

    Matthew Bourne's 'Sleeping Beauty'
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