More than 700,000 Germans have now signed the “Manifesto for Peace” initiated by Alice Schwarzer and Sahra Wagenknecht and directed against arms deliveries to Ukraine. 700,000 people – surely they can’t all be Putinists, Kremlin’s fifth column in Germany, remote-controlled trolls and subscribers to the “Junge Welt”?

I have a suspicion that I’ve been pondering for a while. And I hesitate to spread it here. But what the heck, out with it.