<div><p> 'A German joke, ' a former British ambassador once told me, 'is no laughing matter.' The Germans take their elections seriously, too. It has been no easy matter, in my day job for CNN, spraying an international audience with initials as I try to explain how the Red-Green coalition of the SPD and Joschka Fischer ...

<div><p>There is something missing from the card for Ascot's big day on Saturday, but it takes a few moments to work out what. Henrythenavigator and Tamayuz are both there, ready for one of those miling head-to-heads that the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes does so well. So too are the obvious candidates for the ...