Carsten Timmermann

He clearly feels it's not relelvant. 🤷‍♂️

Good luck!

I asked him if he sees himself as hafu, or rather as daburu.

Son No 1 says he "couldn't care less".😬 And: "I don't live in Japan, so it doesn't affect me anyway."

I think my kids (not living in Japan but in the UK, and with a German and a Japanese parent) would see it that way.

I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language?
Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries.
So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together.
zenodot.app

Only works for people working in Mickey Mouse disciplines, such as Human Computer Interaction -- not for historians.

Laurel Clark | Official NASA photo

3/10/1961 — b. Laurel Clark, American physician, #NASA astronaut, U.S. Navy Captain. Space Shuttle Columbia Mission Specialist 4; perished w/ crew during entry (2003). Posthumously awarded Congressional Space Medal of Honor #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #AstroSky #MedSky #SciSky #HistMed #WHM2026

Nigel Farage in answering Nick Robinson's question about why he believes Britain is broken gave an analysis of falling net migration that is demonstrably factually inaccurate. "It is so broken and its declining so quickly that anybody with a dispassionate view can see it. It is quite interesting. Just look at the net migration numbers. 'Oh isn't it good net migration is coming down?' But do you know why? It is because there is an exodus. There is now an exodus.Those who are of a situation and a financial position to have a choice are now fleeing the country in numbers". This is factually incorrect. Net migration fell year on year by 465,00 in the most recent Official of National Statisitcs figures: the year to June 2025. This was not because of an "exodus" (an increase in emigration). It is because immigration fell by 401,000 (to 898,000 from 1.299 million the previous year). That accounts for 90% of the big drop in net migration. The increase in emigration by 41,000 was a minor component. Most of the increase in emigration was of non-EU nationals. British citizens made up a third of emigrants, but there was no significant increasse in British emigration, which was at very similar levels in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025: it is not a significant cause of the drop in net migration. Nick Robinson did tell Mr Farage that he was exaggerating the number of people who don't speak English - and BBC Verify did produce an analysis showing that was a five-fold exaggeration. But this central incorrect claim about immigration and net migration was not caught in the programme, or before broadcast. It should at least be scrutinised and corrected afterwards - so that an accurate account of why net migration fell (primarily a reduction in immigration visas to the UK) can be communicated to the audience.

I have asked the BBC to scrutinise + correct the factually inaccurate claims made by Mr Nigel Farage about why net migration fell in 'Political Thinking with Nick Robinson'

Here is the link if you want to do something like this.
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

The "Cycling Through Water" trail in Belgium, 🇧🇪 designated by Time magazine as one of the world's most astonishing places, is a 212-meter trail that crosses a lake at water level…

My parents met in Plettenberg.

To mark the 125th anniversary of the Schwebebahn in Wuppertal this month, here's a 1950s tourism poster designed by Harald Gutschow.

Rural households using oil heaters are excellent candidates for heat pumps and government should be prioritising support for that not subsidising oil

That the Dutch serve coffee with (not after) every meal takes getting used to.

Wuppertal is undervalued. One of the birthplaces of the Industrial Revolution in Germany. And birthplace of the honorary Mancunian Friedrich Engels.

Birds don't have to wait in check-in queues.

That's a lot of money ... but would pay for only one day of war against Iran.

I'm sure you are going to tell us.

Abstract In 1975 a group of pedophile Norwegian men founded an organization to promote legalization of sex between adults and children: The Norwegian Working Group for Pedophilia (NAFP). They were part of an international pedophile movement launched in the Netherlands a few years earlier. Through the 1970s, the NAFP and their close ally, the psychologist and sexologist Thore Langfeldt, were able to promote pedophilia and sex between adults and children without any significant backlash. This article is an attempt to explain public acceptance for pedophilia in Norway in the 1970s. Previous attempts to explain acceptance of pedophilia in various European countries in the 1970s and 80s have primarily seen it as one aspect of the “sexual revolution”: a period from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, which saw a broad liberalization of sexual norms, including sexual emancipation of women and increased acceptance for non-normative sexual orientations. While this article does not reject the “sexual revolution” explanation, it argues that other explanatory factors are equally or more important. These factors have more to do with the continuation of patriarchy and heteronormativity than with any revolt against them. The first is the contemporaneous state of psychological research and expert opinion. According to many psychologists and other experts, sex between children and adults could be consensual, in which case it was also harmless. However, this state of psychological research and expert opinion was not new in the 1970s and cannot explain why the 1970s saw an unprecedented level of acceptance for pedophilia. The second explanatory factor is the prevalence of a seduction theory of homosexuality. For a long time prior to the legalization of sex between men in 1972, debates about legalization had focused on whether adolescent same-sex sexual experiences could lead to permanent homosexuality. When, in 1972, members of the Norwegian parliament voted to legalize sex between men …

This was actually not uncommon in the 1970s. Just saying.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

We are facing an energy crisis. Britain is the worst exposed in Europe with only 2 days gas supply stored. If only we had our own gas to exploit. Or our own oil. Or our own coal.... Blame @Ed Miliband (Allison Pearson on X)

If only we had clean, renewable energy and were not beholden to a dirty, expensive, dangerous commodity that pollutes our environment and is the source of most of our geopolitical woes.

True: the lunch doesn’t look attractive, but otherwise this is very unfair. I love Dutch towns and cities. And have you tried cycling in, well, most other places?

Are you going to bring them along in May? Please! Hand luggage?

When did the British right get so unpatriotic? Backing Donald Trump over the UK isn’t popular

"It is not that one expects these guys to actually *like* Starmer: few of those who actually voted for him do. Nonetheless – when did denizens of the British right convince themselves that backing a foreign leader over their own countrymen was in any way patriotic?"

On "patriotic" "conservatives"

Why has Hitler taken so long to die? The way that Hitler died is fundamentally unique in the history of 20th century dictators. But does that explain his cultural afterlife?

Very pleased to see that the first media feature pertaining to my forthcoming book is out now with @bigissue.com! Thanks so much for giving me the opportunity to talk about why Hitler has had such a "long death": www.bigissue.com/culture/book...

An emphatic YES! re chickens.

I feel drained after every lecture. And I have stage fright before.

Talk done and heading home. Think students and teachers enjoyed it. Don’t know how people of my age and older do this regularly - I feel absolutely drained!

Don’t ask me how they feel about Israel.

Carter for me, too. I’ve got very vague memories of Ford.

My kids hold Japanese, British and German passports, and are 100% Mancunian. [lots of their peers have mixed heritage]