FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Stasi - Caught on Camera

AfD’s new state MPs include ex-Stasi officer, former porn actor, neopagans and neo-Nazis

Far-right German party’s newly elected representatives face fresh scrutiny as it tries to form government in Saxony-Anhalt

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11

How Iran draws citizens into political surveillance

Authoritarian governments have long drawn ordinary citizens into political surveillance. Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union encouraged denunciations. East Germany’s secret police service, the Stasi, embedded informants in workplaces and neighbourhoods.

The Conversation · Sep 11

The ex-Stasi agent, the ‘pornstar’ and the perfume salesman: the AfD candidates set to take power in Germany

IN DEPTH : The AfD swept to power in Saxony-Anhalt, causing a political earthquake in Germany and Europe. Alex Croft looks at the problematic pasts of many of its candidates

The Independent UK · Sep 10

‘Soviet-era Stasi’ or defender of media freedoms? The battle for the Broadcasting Standards Authority

The decision by the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) to formally consider a complaint about something Sean Plunket said on The Platform has now spun well beyond the complaint itself.

The Conversation · Oct 21, 2025

Cold war power play: how the Stasi got into computer games

A new exhibition in Berlin shows how the notoriously paranoid East German state greeted the dawn of video gaming with surprising enthusiasm

The Guardian - UK · Oct 7, 2025

‘I would be terrible at this!’: inside the fiendish TV guessing game whose players have no idea where they are

Breathtaking landscapes! Machiavellian mind tricks! A whole month living on a coach! Rob Brydon takes us inside BBC travel game Destination X, where viewers – and contestants – try to find themselves in Europe

The Guardian - UK · Jul 25, 2025

From a rectal kit to a Berlin Wall-era transmitter: the artefacts of Australia’s spy museum which doesn’t exist – yet

More than a dozen intelligence services are represented in Mike Pritchard’s collection of spy gadgets. He wants to bring them to the world

The Guardian - AU · Jun 21, 2025

A challenging Suzuka corner’s hidden history

‘Spoon’, ‘130R’, ‘Hairpin’, ‘S Curves’. The corner names at Suzuka have prescriptive, unembellished quality. Except for… Degner.

Motorsport · Apr 3, 2025

A Suzuka corner’s hidden history

‘Spoon’, ‘130R’, ‘Hairpin’, ‘S Curves’. The corner names at Suzuka have prescriptive, unembellished quality. Except for… Degner.

Autosport · Apr 3, 2025

How this German fringe party plans to 'make socialism great again'

While Germany attempts to form its new government, only four of its political parties will have the chance to become part of a new ruling coalition. The far-right AfD is likely to be excluded from negotiations, and there are 24 other parties that didn't win enough votes to enter parliament.…

Radio France Internationale · Mar 15, 2025