Joachim Llambi has been a judge on the RTL dance show Let’s Dance since 2006. He also judges professional and amateur dancesport. In 2014 he published a book subtitled Mut zur ehrlichen Kritik, courage for honest criticism. In 2025 he said: “Ich will bei ‹Let’s Dance› stets ein ehrliches, klares Urteil geben.” I always want to give an honest, clear verdict on Let’s Dance. It annoys him, he added, when criticism becomes insulting for no reason. He looks at timing, footwork, body lines and the work with the partner. “Wir bewerten das, was wir sehen”, he said. We judge what we see.
The Annual List of Defects by Car Model
Every year the German inspection organizations publish the TÜV-Report, the results of the main vehicle inspection, the Hauptuntersuchung, model by model. The TÜV-Report 2026 appeared on 20 November 2025. It is based on about 9.5 million inspections from July 2024 to June 2025. More than one car in five, 21.5 percent, had major or dangerous defects. Among cars two to three years old, the Tesla Model Y came last of 110 models, with a defect rate of 17.3 percent. The Mazda 2 was the overall winner.
Many Employees Hold Back
For its DGB-Index Gute Arbeit, the German Trade Union Confederation analyzed the answers of 8,011 employees to three questions on the climate at work in 2018. Almost half of them, 44 percent, described the climate for expressing opinions in their workplace as critical. These employees dare to raise problems with superiors or management not at all, or only to a small degree.
Tired of the Coalition’s Quarrels
In August 2023 the polling institute Forsa asked Germans about the disputes inside the governing coalition of SPD, Greens and FDP. Thirty-five percent said they understood that the three parties argued because their opinions differed. Sixty-one percent said they were so tired of the constant disputes that they no longer listened closely to what the disputes were about. The coalition broke apart in November 2024.