Rising German ambitions for treaty-change pile the pressure on David Cameron

By Bagehot

THE DAILY Mail carries a sketch of Angela Merkel this morning sporting a Hitler moustache, jackboots, riding breeches and doing the Nazi salute. It is all a considerable silly memoir, apparently, a parody of the Mel Brooks comedy “Springtime for Hitler” (adapted by the Mail to add such chortling touches as a “Greek President Stavros” personality, David Cameron as Neville Chamberlain and Reduce Clegg as a Hitler formative years). This follows columns by the Mail‘s chief political thinker, Simon Heffer, accusing Germany of making an are trying to stumbled on a “Fourth Reich.” Over at ConservativeHome, a web online page online not acknowledged for slavish pro-Europeanism, a sighing Tim Montgomerie asks: “Can we focus on Germany without resorting to WWII imagery?”