Iain, while I’m with you in my dismay over the German election results, and I am certainly no fan of the Greens, there could be worse things than bringing the Greens in, if that’s what necessary to keep the socialists out. As you know, the German Greens are divided between ‘realists’ (a flattering description, admittedly) and ‘fundamentalists’, and in the former camp you will find something of a constituency for the free market reforms that Germany needs, but is now very unlikely to get. Am I clutching at straws? Yup.