The greatest scandal is individual power | Brief letters

Trump and US democratic deficit | Report cards | Train strain | Musk’s brain power | Prostate cancer anxietyScandalous as Donald Trump’s actions may be, they do not constitute the greatest scandal (Trump’s foreign aid cuts could be ‘big strategic mistake’, says Lammy, 7 February). That lies rather in the fact that a system purporting to display democracy to the world allows so much power to be concentrated in one individual’s hands. The eventual departure of t