Paul Wheatley, Munich/München/Teesside journalist & photographer
@wheatleymunich.bsky.social
British journalist in Munich (München), currently writing another book on the city’s history. Love the natural world - & football and cricket, sometimes. Get in touch for articles, particularly on Munich, Bavaria, Alps, etc.
https://www.paul-wheatley.eu/
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In Berlin, I took an evening class on fascism – and found out how to stop the AfD | Tania Roettger
In Berlin, I took an evening class on fascism – and found out how to stop the AfD | Tania Roettger
With the far-right party ahead in the polls, I discovered that a novel set during the rise of the Nazis provides a timely warning, says journalist Tania Roettger
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:14 AM
In Berlin, I took an evening class on fascism – and found out how to stop the AfD | Tania Roettger
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A simple way to make your own delicious cider with minimal equipment, just in time for Christmas. A great way to use up windfall apples.
youtu.be/jRjBUjcJJMg
youtu.be/jRjBUjcJJMg
How to make cider without a cider press
YouTube video by Dave Goulson
youtu.be
December 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
A simple way to make your own delicious cider with minimal equipment, just in time for Christmas. A great way to use up windfall apples.
youtu.be/jRjBUjcJJMg
youtu.be/jRjBUjcJJMg
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🥳 Historic win in the EU Parliament! Today, a majority of MEPs voted to guarantee the safe and legal access to #abortion for anyone who needs it in the EU.
Thanks to My Voice My Choice for the Initiative and all the hard-work.
Your body, your voice, your choice. Always.
Thanks to My Voice My Choice for the Initiative and all the hard-work.
Your body, your voice, your choice. Always.
December 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
🥳 Historic win in the EU Parliament! Today, a majority of MEPs voted to guarantee the safe and legal access to #abortion for anyone who needs it in the EU.
Thanks to My Voice My Choice for the Initiative and all the hard-work.
Your body, your voice, your choice. Always.
Thanks to My Voice My Choice for the Initiative and all the hard-work.
Your body, your voice, your choice. Always.
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FT: 2-1. Another well deserved #Boro win. As at Hull, a superb first 45 of fluid football did the damage, the 2nd half all about game management. Sky comms tried to make out Charlton were piling on pressure but never felt like any real danger. Solid show. Lots of positives. #UTB
December 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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#Boro had won three out of 11 prior to Kim Hellberg's arrival. They've now won three straight games in 11 days under their new head coach.
December 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
#Boro had won three out of 11 prior to Kim Hellberg's arrival. They've now won three straight games in 11 days under their new head coach.
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Two out of two for Kim Hellberg. Impressive from Boro tonight.
Reaching conclusions about a coach from his first press conference is unwise, but we can say Kim Hellberg did this bit well. First game is Boro-Derby C. at the Riverside on Saturday. www.nytimes.com/athletic/684...
Kim Hellberg targeting Premier League promotion after taking reins at Middlesbrough
The 37-year-old Swede led Hammarby to successive second-place finishes in the Allsvenskan and replaces Rob Edwards at the Riverside Stadium.
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Two out of two for Kim Hellberg. Impressive from Boro tonight.
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😍 Kim Hellberg loved both #Boro halves at Hull tonight - for different reasons
🗣️ 'I am so pleased'
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/256776...
🗣️ 'I am so pleased'
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/256776...
Kim Hellberg loved both Middlesbrough halves at Hull - for different reasons
Kim Hellberg's verdict on Middlesbrough's 'amazing' win at Hull City
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
😍 Kim Hellberg loved both #Boro halves at Hull tonight - for different reasons
🗣️ 'I am so pleased'
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/256776...
🗣️ 'I am so pleased'
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/256776...
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👏Hellberg on Gilbert: 'He showed me he's a very clever footballer. He's very quick to learn. He's brave. He trains very good'
😎 Having played so little, how did Gilbert react to #Boro selection? 'He was cool. He repaid me 10 times with that performance'
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/256776...
😎 Having played so little, how did Gilbert react to #Boro selection? 'He was cool. He repaid me 10 times with that performance'
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/256776...
Kim Hellberg explains his 'surprise' Middlesbrough decision - and the 'cool' reaction
Kim Hellberg explained his surprise decision to start Alex Gilbert for Middlesbrough at Hull City
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
👏Hellberg on Gilbert: 'He showed me he's a very clever footballer. He's very quick to learn. He's brave. He trains very good'
😎 Having played so little, how did Gilbert react to #Boro selection? 'He was cool. He repaid me 10 times with that performance'
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/256776...
😎 Having played so little, how did Gilbert react to #Boro selection? 'He was cool. He repaid me 10 times with that performance'
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/256776...
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Forgot to say: in the #Boro presser the boss was asked what he'd changed tactically at HT & gave a really detailed, technical answer (the lads will no doubt write it up tomorrow). So refreshing when coaches (usually foreign) actually explain. Carrick/Edwards it'd be: "we changed it a bit." #UTB
November 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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🗣️ Kim Hellberg:
❤️ 'I will remember this for the rest of my life'
👏 Half-time promise to his players in #Boro dressing room
🔴 His delight at Boro's handling of a 'tough situation'
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/256606...
❤️ 'I will remember this for the rest of my life'
👏 Half-time promise to his players in #Boro dressing room
🔴 His delight at Boro's handling of a 'tough situation'
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/256606...
Inside Middlesbrough dressing room with key Hellberg half-time promise on 'crazy day'
Kim Hellberg's verdict on Middlesbrough's victory over Derby County in his first game in charge
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
🗣️ Kim Hellberg:
❤️ 'I will remember this for the rest of my life'
👏 Half-time promise to his players in #Boro dressing room
🔴 His delight at Boro's handling of a 'tough situation'
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/256606...
❤️ 'I will remember this for the rest of my life'
👏 Half-time promise to his players in #Boro dressing room
🔴 His delight at Boro's handling of a 'tough situation'
www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/256606...
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'Bangura display gave me goosebumps' - Hellberg https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c0r9zw18vryo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss #boro
Middlesbrough 2-1 Derby County: Kim Hellberg praises Alex Bangura
Kim Hellberg says players can force their way into his side by training well.
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
'Bangura display gave me goosebumps' - Hellberg https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c0r9zw18vryo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss #boro
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I’m all in. I’ll be joining today and donating. Sick of negative hate filled politics. A breath of fresh air @zackpolanski.bsky.social. Thank you for the hope.
Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I’m all in. I’ll be joining today and donating. Sick of negative hate filled politics. A breath of fresh air @zackpolanski.bsky.social. Thank you for the hope.
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“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of 'Letting the Country Down' With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum
The veteran Labour peer and lifelong campaigner for child refugees, Alf Dubs, tells Byline Times that the Home Secretary's plans are "bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government"
bylinetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
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The "guy making a case about low taxes" was in fact Karl Williams of the Centre for Policy Studies - author of the fictional/fabricated and now withdrawn "£234 billion" cost number cited by Katie Lam and Reform.
Funnily Amol Rajan didn't ask him about that.. 😉
Funnily Amol Rajan didn't ask him about that.. 😉
And again I wonder why a super expert like Portes is not on BBC4 today instead of a guy making a case about low taxes
Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving.
A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.
Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A "step in the right direction" according to the PM.
Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The "guy making a case about low taxes" was in fact Karl Williams of the Centre for Policy Studies - author of the fictional/fabricated and now withdrawn "£234 billion" cost number cited by Katie Lam and Reform.
Funnily Amol Rajan didn't ask him about that.. 😉
Funnily Amol Rajan didn't ask him about that.. 😉
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My #CrossBorderRail trip from Brugge 🇧🇪to Nuits-sous-Ravières 🇫🇷has gone so badly, and will leave me €59.94 out of pocket
So Alberto Mazzola of @cer-railways.bsky.social is getting an open letter and an invoice for €59.94 from me
Here's the letter 👇
jonworth.eu/an-open-lett...
So Alberto Mazzola of @cer-railways.bsky.social is getting an open letter and an invoice for €59.94 from me
Here's the letter 👇
jonworth.eu/an-open-lett...
An open letter, and an invoice for €59.94, to Alberto Mazzola, boss of Community of European Railways - Jon Worth
Dear Alberto, It is a little odd for me, a blogger and campaigner, to be writing an open letter to you as Executive Director of Community of European Railways (CER). But the combination of circumstanc...
jonworth.eu
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
My #CrossBorderRail trip from Brugge 🇧🇪to Nuits-sous-Ravières 🇫🇷has gone so badly, and will leave me €59.94 out of pocket
So Alberto Mazzola of @cer-railways.bsky.social is getting an open letter and an invoice for €59.94 from me
Here's the letter 👇
jonworth.eu/an-open-lett...
So Alberto Mazzola of @cer-railways.bsky.social is getting an open letter and an invoice for €59.94 from me
Here's the letter 👇
jonworth.eu/an-open-lett...
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Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the country, says historian Giles Tremlett
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
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Well stated. There are so many efforts to distract from reversing fossil-fuel-driven climate warming, which is linked to so many other compelling issues such as inequality, biodiversity loss, public health ...
Print version of my new commentary ("Bill Gates’s climate comments are a dangerous distraction") on #COP30, Bill Gates and more, in the latest issue of @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Well stated. There are so many efforts to distract from reversing fossil-fuel-driven climate warming, which is linked to so many other compelling issues such as inequality, biodiversity loss, public health ...
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Am 20. November 1945 beginnt im Justizpalast in Nürnberg die Verlesung der Anklage im Prozess gegen 20 führende Persönlichkeiten des „Dritten Reichs", darunter Hermann Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Julius Streicher, wegen Kriegsverbrechen und Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit


November 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Am 20. November 1945 beginnt im Justizpalast in Nürnberg die Verlesung der Anklage im Prozess gegen 20 führende Persönlichkeiten des „Dritten Reichs", darunter Hermann Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Julius Streicher, wegen Kriegsverbrechen und Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit


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which #boro players do you think could be the big winners from kim hellberg’s arrival?
have a read of my picks ⤵️✍️
vitalfootball.co.uk/winners-of-k...
have a read of my picks ⤵️✍️
vitalfootball.co.uk/winners-of-k...
5 Winners of Hellberg’s Arrival at Middlesbrough
Here are the five potential winners from Kim Hellberg’s arrival at Middlesbrough and why they will thrive under him.
vitalfootball.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
which #boro players do you think could be the big winners from kim hellberg’s arrival?
have a read of my picks ⤵️✍️
vitalfootball.co.uk/winners-of-k...
have a read of my picks ⤵️✍️
vitalfootball.co.uk/winners-of-k...
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#Cop30 live blog - ‘We need to think about how to live without fossil fuels’ Brazilian president Lula tells UN summit
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop30 live: ‘We need to think about how to live without fossil fuels’ Brazilian president Lula tells summit
Brazilian president underlines need to reduce emissions as Turkey set to host next year’s summit
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
#Cop30 live blog - ‘We need to think about how to live without fossil fuels’ Brazilian president Lula tells UN summit
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Spanish PM calls for nation to heed past lessons on anniversary of Franco’s death
Spanish PM calls for nation to heed past lessons on anniversary of Franco’s death
Pedro Sánchez says his country must defend the democratic freedom ‘wrenched from us for so many years’
Spain has marked the 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death with an absence of official events but with a call from the prime minister to heed the lessons of the dictatorship and defend the democratic freedom “wrenched from us for so many years”.
Franco, whose military coup against the elected republican government in 1936 triggered a civil war and brought about four decades of dictatorship, died in Madrid on 20 November 1975. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Spanish PM calls for nation to heed past lessons on anniversary of Franco’s death
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Oh, this feels awful. The Stone Roses were a massive part of my teens, those delicious years of expanding horizons and gentle freedoms. I got the first album for Christmas when I was 18, and it became the soundtrack to all of the above. I'm so, so sad to hear this.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Gary 'Mani' Mounfield: Stone Roses bassist dies aged 63
The musician, known as 'Mani', played on both Stone Roses albums and later joined Primal Scream.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Oh, this feels awful. The Stone Roses were a massive part of my teens, those delicious years of expanding horizons and gentle freedoms. I got the first album for Christmas when I was 18, and it became the soundtrack to all of the above. I'm so, so sad to hear this.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...