German farmers this past week-plus, in protest against their federal government's decision to slash a farmers diesel subsidy, amid other complaints against the national Berlin government, shut down many parts of Germany, including Berlin with a massive protest using farm tractors to block roads and highways. The farmers also intimidated German vice chancellor Robert Habeck as he returned from vacation and refused to allow his ferry to dock on the mainland. 

Guest: Katja Hoyer, Visiting Research Fellow at Kings College, London. Op ed journalist for leading international journals. German/Anglo historian and author of Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany 1949-1990.

Wrote op ed for The SPECTATOR January 7, 'Why German farmers are rebelling.'  

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