A sweet deal for pensioners

An innovative Munich start-up employs pensioners to bake old-fashioned, traditional cakes. It offers them the opportunity to earn money, feel useful and meet people – and their customers, to enjoy cakes baked with love The sweet, warm fragrance envelopes you as soon...

There’s no place like home

Unique, well-loved Munich café Kaffee Espresso & Barista is shutting down – another casualty of gentrification My “office” is changing hands, and I’m as gutted as the premises will be when they close it down. Strictly speaking, it’s not actually a workplace, but a...

A woman of much importance

An extensive exhibition of 20th-century artist Gabriele Münter’s work shines a spotlight on a masterful painter deserving greater recognition Her self-portrait in 1909 reveals much. Cover her face, and you see the beginnings of expressionism, already veering...

Brexit: ‘What can you live with?’

Award-winning journalist Fintan O’Toole speaks about the impossibility of Brexit and why nationalism is naive When the UK voted yes to Brexit, they forgot a minor detail. This minor detail – Ireland – will, as journalist and intellectual Fintan O’Toole...

Witches’ brew

A big pot of broth is a potion in more ways than one It’s that time of year when just looking outside, never mind stretching a tentative finger out from under the duvet, makes you feel shivery and chilled through. Even multiple cups of fresh, hot tea aren’t...