The scandal wasn’t Jens Spahn’s sexuality. It was his hypocrisy

Spahn’s critics were accused of homophobia. But the real scandal was that he applied one set of rules to Germany — and another to himself.

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There is nothing particularly unusual about a photo ending a political career.

In the unforgiving world of British politics, a single image in the hands of a tabloid can be fatal. Labour leader Ed Miliband never recovered from his failure to eat a bacon sandwich. Covid-era health minister Matt Hancock was finished by an image of him kissing a…