A chara, – Regarding Ed Walsh’s interesting comment (Opinion, July 6th) that “not one of the many people who have proven themselves internationally serves in government”, it might help if we had more (some?) respect for our duly elected political leaders.
Also, I don’t think that we’d swap our government for the Chinese one, which he says scores 100 per cent with each of its members scientifically literate.
Finally, whatever the faults of our civil service in recent years, are others – including our universities – blameless? – Is mise,