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The delicate art of hanging around like a lemon while your allies get lambasted – POLITICO

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Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column.

A confession, dear reader: Many years ago, in a journalism class (editor’s note: really?) in Dublin, the lecturer said that “British people can’t type,” and I — a British person who can type at speeds sometimes exceeding 10 words an hour — said nothing.

As was for me then, so is for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz now.