There are hiccups and hiccups

"With this heat, maybe I should ask my friends in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf for some camels," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis quipped in an interview with Skai TV on Wednesday night, commenting on a proposal for a mounted police force. "We don't need it. It's an interesting idea, but we don't need it right now," he added. 

Citizen Protection Minister Notis Mitarakis was probably completely unaware a few hours earlier what kind of a media and social media storm he was unleashing when he said that he was planning to introduce a mounted police force in downtown Athens, noting that it would be used as a tourist attraction and for ceremonial purposes.

Wanting to fix the things that are broken in the badly built Greek state is one issue; trying to paper over the cracks and damp stains on the walls is quite another

It would be easy to...