I fear some people in Labour are getting complacent about the collapse of the Greens and how left/social liberal voters have returned with Burnham. That isn't inevitable. If you go back to kicking them or ignoring their concerns they'll look elsewhere again, even more disillusioned than before

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The speeches have recently been re-edited and published as a now bestselling book in Germany. One can only assume that Ganesh is unaware of this and has based this column entirely on the movie he just watched. Which is a bit shallow and disappointing.

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My own book about Britain ends with an epilogue about Mann’s work for the BBC. I wrote it on the day when Trump announced that he would sue the BBC. If you must know, my hands were shaking on my keyboard as I wrote this.

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Also, if you are going to make a case for “innere Emigration” let us not the forget the many people who did and do not have that option. And let us at least consider Hannah Arendt’s argument who called the concept of “innere Emigration“ “quite simply, a lie”.

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Whatever one thinks of Janan Ganesh‘s general point, this column is very misleading. Thomas Mann was anything but apolitical during the time when it really mattered: the Nazi period and the war. His BBC lectures “To the German people” called for resistance and described Hitler’s many crimes. /🧵

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