Twitter Merz: man or machine?

The Chancellor's late-night football tweet exposed the fiction behind modern political communication — and Germany's curious double standard over ghost-written content.

Dear Reader,

Only Friedrich Merz could turn Germany’s World Cup exit into a communications crisis for the Chancellery.

Despite pre-tournament optimism (and attempts to summon the Lord to support Germany’s cause), the national team were knocked out of the World Cup by lowly Paraguay after limping through the group stage.

It was a slight improvement on the p…