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    William_Noah_Glucroft

    William Noah Glucroft

    Senior Correspondent
    William Noah Glucroft is a Brussels-based journalist. Before that, he spent 15 years in Berlin, covering the hard, soft, and confused sides of German politics and society. He trades in new ideas and sound arguments, ideally over hotpot.

    6 articles

    Subhumans to populists. African refugees, Ceuta..
    Politics
    William Noah Glucroft / 07 Aug 2026

    Ceuta Shattered the EU Dream

    Euroscepticism in an Age of Fascist Creep

    It’s not so much that the European Union’s response to the Spanish migrant “crisis” was shameful. It was an embarrassment.(...)

    Cops versus anarchists. Karl-Marx-Platz, Berlin.
    Politics
    William Noah Glucroft / 25 Jun 2026

    The Arc of Liberal Progress Bends Towards Fascism

    Platform Capitalism is Freedom

    If there’s one thing that centrists and fascists can agree on, it’s capitalism built on a racialised hierarchy of labour.(...)

    Germany, not what it seems. Hermannstraße, Berlin.
    Politics
    William Noah Glucroft / 05 May 2026

    The Ulm 5 is All of Us

    Destabilising German Democracy

    In an infamous prison complex outside Stuttgart, Germany’s constitutional credibility is on trial.(...)

    Politics
    William Noah Glucroft / 20 Feb 2026

    Instrumentalising Jewish Memory Politics

    Ronald Lauder and Antisemitism

    Transatlantic statesman. Fervent Zionist. Right-wing billionaire philanthropist.(...)

    Politics
    William Noah Glucroft / 10 Feb 2026

    Mourn the Journalists, Not the Journalism

    The Washington Post Spikes its Global Coverage

    It was hard to be surprised by Jeff Bezos butchering his newsroom.(...)

    Politics
    William Noah Glucroft / 21 Apr 2025

    Liberal Trumpism

    The Duplicity of Jeffrey Goldberg

    It's always awkward when the newsman becomes the news story.(...)

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