I have been enjoying the guest posts on Iain Dale’s blog – although I have come to them weeks late, and I have had to wait a while until I’ve had the time to give them a slightly closer reading than I give most of his content.

Special mention for last week’s post on German involvement in international diplomacy. I had no idea. Good for them. Our damaged national psyche does us no good when we can only think of Germans as Nazis. Hardly any Brit would consider Germany as a holiday destination; our arthouse cinemas have French films coming out of their ears, but German cinema hardly ever features, despite a healthy tradition of film-making in German-speaking countries.

I’ve been mentally writing blog-posts about my time in Munich last month, but haven’t actually typed anything up yet…