The Aporia · Deborah Cole in Berlin

Articles

5

2026-08-31 – 2026-10-30

Claims per article

24

120 extracted in total

Hedged claims

10%

corpus average 9%

Typical length

4,458

characters

Writes for The Guardian.

Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

Politics

60%

Crime & Law

20%

Economy/Business

20%

Most-tagged topics

CDUGermanyAfDBerlinGermanAudiAustrianEuropean

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2 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.29 (leans left).

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.

2026-09-20 · The Guardian · Politics

Friedrich Merz vows to stay in office after CDU ‘disaster’ in German state elections

20 outlets covered this event

2026-09-20 · The Guardian · Politics

Future of German chancellor hangs in the balance as two states go to polls

20 outlets covered this event · leans left

2026-10-30 · The Guardian · Politics

Cost of living protests to spread to Germany and reignite in France on Halloween

18 outlets covered this event

2026-10-26 · The Guardian · Economy/Business

Audi boss under fire in Germany for Trump rally appearance

6 outlets covered this event · leans left

2026-08-31 · The Guardian · Crime & Law

Egyptian queen’s 673-diamond necklace stolen in Vienna smash-and-grab raid

no other outlet in the corpus covered this

2026-09-20 · The Guardian

Future of German chancellor hangs in the balance as two states go to polls

🔮 Coming two weeks after a seismic election in Saxony-Anhalt in which the anti-immigration, pro-Kremlin Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) scored its highest ever result in a regional poll, the nativist party is expected to drain support again from Merz’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU). assertive

2026-09-20 · The Guardian

Friedrich Merz vows to stay in office after CDU ‘disaster’ in German state elections

🔮 But he said he would remain chancellor and party chair and continue a reform drive on fronts including taxes, healthcare, pensions and reducing bureaucracy. assertive

2026-10-26 · The Guardian

Audi boss under fire in Germany for Trump rally appearance

🔮 Döllner and Trump announced to the crowd on Saturday that Audi would spend $4bn to build its first factory in the US and create 4,500 jobs, even as VW aims to slash tens of thousands of positions and close plants in Germany. “We are planning to bring our biggest and most premium SUVs, and produce them here in Macon, Georgia,” Döllner said at the rally in Perry near Macon, in a highly unusual move for a European executive during a hard-fought US electoral campaign. assertive

2026-10-30 · The Guardian

Cost of living protests to spread to Germany and reignite in France on Halloween

🔮 Street protests sweeping Europe are expected to spread to Germany and reignite in France on Saturday, with police mobilised to stop potential looting and rioting on the fringes of what organisers hope will be peaceful rallies. assertive

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