• Jan Fleishchhauer is a columnist for Der Spiegel
“Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television,” Gore Vidal once said. But there is another offer that a German always finds difficult to refuse: the chance to give an opinion on the Brexit “shitshow” (to use the considered phrase of our Europe minister, Michael Roth). Who could pass up an opportunity to retaliate for 70 years of jokes about the Huns, the Blitzkrieg and Germany’s inability to make sense of humour?
The problem is, am I too late? As Theresa May arrives in Berlin in desperate search of a friendly word from Angela Merkel, have we reached the point where mockery and ridicule are out of order? The only appropriate response to British efforts to carry out Brexit seems to me to be to offer condolences. But sincere sympathy is not a good basis for jokes.
Continue reading...from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2KjTnZI
