The eurozone's people are like prisoners in Colditz | Simon Jenkins

Incarcerated in a citadel of currency union with the flexibility of granite, their governments give them no chance to escape

It's not working, is it? No matter how many summits there are, no matter how many times the Greeks vote or Barack Obama pleads or David Cameron lectures from on high, nothing happens. The yield on Spanish bonds, that beckoning finger of apocalypse, goes relentlessly upwards. All we do is howl, simper and plead for Germany to do something, even just kick the can down the...