The last time I saw Herr von Ribbentrop
When the Deputy PM singles out academics by name and encourages pile-ons, is it "being playful" or is it intimidation?
Who doesn't enjoy a politician with an acerbic wit?
In The Gathering Storm, Churchill gives an account of a tedious farewell dinner in 1938 for the German Ambassador which he ends, deadpan, with the words: "This was the last time I saw Herr von Ribbentrop before he was hanged."
Who amongst our political reporting class is not nostalgic for a Lange press c…