How Germany’s Mutti Merkel has turned blandness into gold

The country desperately needs change, so why does its leaden chancellor still appear invincible after 12 years?Gerry and the Pacemakers, contemporaries of the Beatles, once had a hit called How Do You Do It? As the German elections draw nearer and Angela Merkel seems to be coasting towards a fourth term as chancellor, politicians all over the world might well ask: how does she do it? She is uncharismatic and rhetorically leaden and has made political blunders that would have ruined mos