“I escaped war and bombs, swam to Europe and ran—all the way to Hamburg. No fence was too high, no sea was too deep, no day was too long. I overcame all of these challenges, but now I am about to fail.”
“Back when we were fewer there was a glorious freedom in dancing through the traffic, whose rules and logic we learned so well that it often felt like a benevolent force, sheltering us as much as it threatened us. We were the pilot fish darting in among the sharks, the gazelles sprinting through herds of lumbering bison.” Requiring only two sentences, Emily Chappell manages to capture the essence of cycling in London at a time before Boris Bikes and cycle superhighways.
“Sport verbindet. Wie das geht, zeigt ein privates Mini-Projekt in Viersen in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Dort geht eine deutsche Laufgruppe mit afrikanischen Asylbewerbern laufen.” Organisator Frank Scharré spricht mit Frank Joung.
“If even the Governor can’t distinguish between the good and the bad elements of the community and has decided to punish everyone equally, then that should go both ways. I know the police love their ridiculous, unneccessary military equipment. So here’s another patronising test: let’s take it all away from them. And if they can make it through a whole month without killing a single unarmed black man, then, and only then, can they get their fucking toys back!”
John Oliver
“When the ants and the grasshoppers are distributed across the division separating surplus from deficit nations within a badly designed monetary union, the stage is set for a depression that sets all against all in a vicious spiral from which only losers can emerge.” Yanis Varoufakis explains why he thinks that countries in the euro zone can neither bail out nor be bailed out of the current crisis.