Politicians let us down time and again – so why do we stand for it?

Save your trust for ideas, not princes

It hasn’t been a great few days for prominent leaders. Uncharacteristically for, he managed to be the least controversial politician of the bunch, by simply dying without any wider fuss.

Like any competitive system, you then find that the electoral and political process itself has a selection bias in favour of personalities one might describe as beneficially flawed.

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