The Home Office of the UK Government has yesterday published a draught version of the very suspicious Communications Data Bill, often referred to in the online press as the "snooper's charter ( Read more... )

There are many things we phlegmatic English would like to say in our own language, but for which we have to steal German words-usually wonderfully gloomy and introspective terms like Schadenfreude, Weltschmerz, and of course our particular mistranslation of Angst. We could invent our own words but somehow they wouldn't be the same: there's ( Read more... )