Roger Boyes, the Berlin correspondent for the British daily The Times, is going back to London. In his last column for The Local, he explains why he had to end his stay in the ‘narcoleptic’ German capital.
Are there limits to age and experience? When is it time to call it quits? <b>Roger Boyes</b>, Berlin correspondent for British daily The Times, explores Germany’s unhealthy age fetish.
With William and Kate wedding mania reaching fever pitch, <b>Roger Boyes</b>, Berlin correspondent for British daily The Times, looks at Germany’s bad case of royal envy.
Can Thomas de Maizière, Germany’s new defence minister, break the curse hanging over his job? Roger Boyes, correspondent for British daily The Times, takes aim at a ministerial albatross.
The popular Green party aims to take over Berlin's government in 2011. But Roger Boyes, Berlin correspondent for British daily The Times, warns they must find ways to implement the necessary “eco-dictatorship” on a tight budget in the debt-ridden capital.
Not much happens in Germany during the summer holidays in August. But that’s just enough to annoy Roger Boyes, the Berlin correspondent for the British newspaper The Times.
<b>What do the country homes of dentists in eastern Germany have to do with the election of country's next president? Roger Boyes, the Berlin correspondent for the British newspaper The Times, explains.</b>
With skittish Germans fearing the imminent collapse of the euro, Roger Boyes, the Berlin correspondent for the British newspaper The Times, decides it’s time to buy gold. Or sell it.
Roger Boyes, the Berlin correspondent for British daily The Times, doesn’t lament the end of Deutsche Bahn’s troubled romance with the English language.
Faced with post-holiday bloat, <b>Roger Boyes</b>, the Berlin correspondent for British daily The Times, parses the decision by German women’s magazine <i>Brigitte</i> to stop using skinny models.
Roger Boyes, Berlin correspondent for British daily The Times, believes German society’s fascination with authority belongs confined to where it once was lacking: the country’s military.
Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport might be closed to air traffic, but <b>Roger Boyes</b>, correspondent for British daily The Times, believes it could still help the German capital soar.
With less than a week before Germany’s election, Roger Boyes, the Berlin correspondent for British daily The Times, muses that the country’s voters like being bored by Angela Merkel and her political cohorts.
<b>Roger Boyes, the Berlin correspondent of British daily The Times, knuckles down to write his new book – but only after a valiant effort to escape work.</b>
Roger Boyes, the Berlin correspondent of British daily The Times, expresses concern about the titillating yet terrifying prospect of a “super nanny” state in Germany.
What do finger-chomping chimps at the zoo have to do with voter apathy in Germany? <b>Roger Boyes</b>, the Berlin correspondent of British daily The Times, has the answer.
Giggling Japanese girls and buffoonish British teens? <b>Roger Boyes</b>, the Berlin correspondent of British daily The Times, looks at the flipside of the impact of tourism on the German capital.
<b>Roger Boyes, the Berlin correspondent of British daily The Times, explains why Germany’s leftists should raise a glass of bubbly to the global economic crisis.</b>
<b>Lean times have come to Germany. But Roger Boyes, the Berlin correspondent of British daily The Times, believes that doesn’t mean the country has to go all flabby.</b>
<b>With Germany’s society ageing rapidly, Roger Boyes, the Berlin correspondent of British daily The Times, explains why you soon might have to pay your grandmother for her valuable time.</b>
<b>Forget late trains and spying on employees. Roger Boyes, the Berlin correspondent of British daily The Times, explains why Deutsche Bahn boss Hartmut Mehdorn should be run off the rails.</b>
