What went wrong
Sir: I hope our Prime Minister read your editorial (7 July) on why as a country we have been engulfed in such a profound financial upheaval. Many months into this crisis, we’ve still heard no coherent account from our political leaders as to what went wrong, just a bit of populist banker-bashing and some strange metaphors about the need for big bazookas. No leader refers to those countries, Australia and Canada to the fore, who got their response to the crisis right.
Jonathan Campbell-James
Dubai
Legal fiction
Sir: Rod Liddle (‘The rule of lawyers’, 30 June) is entirely right in his view that judges are no better suited to adjudicate on contentious political controversies than the rest of us. If law were truly a matter of cold remorseless logic, one would see far more cases resolved quickly, in the way that mathematicians review each others’ workings and agree an answer without multiple dissenting opinions.
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