Last Wednesday, at 9.46am, an email reached the Berlin office of Der Spiegel, Germany’s leading news magazine. Elif Eralp, the left-wing politician most likely to become Berlin’s next mayor, will wish it had never been sent.

Attached was the transcript of an interview two Spiegel journalists had conducted with her two days earlier. German papers like to run interviews as a straight exchange of questions and answers. The journalists tidy the conversation and cut it to fit the page.

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