Michael O’Leary is so livid that the authorities are helping to shut Ryanair out of the German aviation market by allowing Lufthansa and Air Berlin to co-ordinate services that he is talking legal action. Worse than that, he has started his own talks to combine services with Alitalia. The last time someone asked Mr O’Leary, below, what he thought of the Italian airline, he replied: “I would not want it if it were given to me as a present.”Reading between the linesRare is the civil servant with the confidence to express himself on social media. John Alty, the mandarin in charge of working out how we trade with the rest of the world post-Brexit, is one such example. On the eve of President…

Source: The Times January 27, 2017 00:04 UTC