Is England not corrupt enough to survive?

Straight dealing in almost any international forum these days is utterly non-existant, says Simon Heffer

Simon Heffer regularly gets furious with his sub-editors’ illiteracy* at the Telegraph. He can have another whack at them now. Thank goodness that Crawf Minor is battling on with A-level Latin as well as all that Maths, Physics and Chemistry – he won’t make that howler.

Oh, and the article is a terrific read too:

Straight dealing in almost any international forum these days evaporates the moment that one country chooses to use money or other favours to get its own way, and given the nature of so many influential regimes around the world, that becomes rather inevitable.

… Life isn’t fair, and the way many other countries act towards us exemplifies the point. The choice we have is the traditional one: we either get mad, or we get even – preferably by honest means.

*  Earlier apostrophe disaster of my own pointed out by a reader with better eyesight than me. Apologies – now corrected.