janjakobb.bsky.social
@janjakobb.bsky.social
Lapsed academic (UK, NZ) turned judge (DE).
What happens every 35 years?
October 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Tread carefully. Implying that bureaucracy can be bad in other countries too is grounds for revoking German citizenship.
October 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The teaser text is interesting in that it claims something different from the text itself. I'd hazard a guess that it's at least very possible most people without a German passport are in fact from Germany.
July 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I tried recreating the potential search query and got this.
July 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
If you clicked on that article, you might also enjoy this one, which also manages to use both meanings of the word "landlord" in the same article. www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...
May 23, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Where do they think St. Peter was from?
April 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Still thinking about this one at the end of the day and I thought this article was quite excellent. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/03...
And Alexander Wept - The Paris Review
“In what ancient text does that passage appear?” Answer: It appears nowhere.
www.theparisreview.org
March 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
There are definitely list candidates who don't run for a constituency seat. In 2017, for example, the CSU leader Joachim Herrmann only ran as a list candidate and didn't get in because his party already won more seats in constituencies than allocated to them based on list votes.
February 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Poor Ed Davey...
February 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Given the subtle shift from "commute distances" in the US to "drivers" in UK and Germany, if American commuters drive even short distances, but UK and German short-range commuters are more likely to use alternative means of transport, that would explain the different averages.
January 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Nevermind the strain the first option would put on telcos and their infrastructure.
January 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
There is also the dig at her at the end. I think as a migrant living in Britain during her tenure as home secretary, I am not a natural May sympathizer, but surely there must be many having a lot more money than her that would also qualify. It's not like she is a particularly outrageous example.
December 19, 2024 at 8:07 PM
It seems the Guardian has now - intransparently - changed the wording to "Theresa May would be owed thousands".
December 19, 2024 at 7:47 PM