Meeting the legendary Hans Ragnar Mathisen, the man who mapped out Sápmi.

Meeting the legendary Hans Ragnar Mathisen, the man who mapped out Sápmi.

We lost the star of the movie.

Earlier this year, the city was hit by its longest power cut since the second world war. But were those responsible eco-terrorists, agents of the far-right, or even Russian proxies?

On Larry and the filing cabinets, and the ongoing genocide of the Native Americans.

How dull dreams can turn out to be

About the time I tried to learn how to survive.

A free IRL party to celebrate the online release of "We're All Going To Die", the prize-winning mostly funny documentary about global dread.

About the time I met a German leftist who had his own special plan for tricking preppers in the end times.

If you want to understand collapse, look no further than the biggest and most reptilian movie franchise.

Ben is afflicted by the all-encompassing crises he is condemned to write about, so he travels from Berlin to Kansas to Norway and finally the centre of all loss, the Chicxulub crater in Mexico, to lea...

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A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...

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Lame duck? Not quite: Chancellor Olaf Scholz is determined to use his last weeks in office with a minority government to pass what he believes are vital laws. But he is relying on the opposition to ma...

Man kann nur hoffen, dass Ben Knight nicht 100 Prozent er selbst ist in seinem Dokumentarfilm, dass er eine Rolle spielt; denn sonst wäre es um seine seelische Gesundheit nicht allzu gut bestellt. Ner...

Frankfurt an der Oder, the German city on the border with Poland, is getting ready for yet another major flood. Yet the climate crisis is barely an issue in the Brandenburg state election.

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The far-right AfD could win eastern state elections, dealing a blow to German democracy and especially the parties that make up Chancellor Olaf Scholz's center-left coalition in Berlin.

Polls in eastern Germany show that the brand new Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) is gaining traction. Though its positions overlap with the far right, the party is winning voters from establishment p...

In which Ben gets a job, learns the laminated five Ws of detective work, unravels a prescription drug conspiracy, eats too much Haribo, travels in style to the top of the Zugspitze, and falls in love....

German cities are calling for new bunkers to be built, to protect the population in the event of war. But critics argue there's no point.

On pretending to be an animal, and the anxiety of trying to get to know non-human creatures.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Germany's Health Minister Karl Lauterbach was one of the country's most popular politicians. Now he plans to slash the number of hospitals and digitalize bureaucracy. Not...

On a prepper I met.

On desultory cooking, eggs, and the profound hopelessness of the Planetary Health Diet.

Ein überwiegend lustiger Dokumentarfilm von Ben Knight Ben ist ein Journalist, dem die andauernden Krisen, über die er immer wieder schreibt, zusetzen. Also reist er von Berlin nach London, ...