Was there ever a better example of the pot calling the kettle black? You report (Report, February 11) Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz as saying, in response to the suggestion that Germany should privatise its railways — something he says Friedrich Merz, his political opponent, wants to do — that “that will end as badly as in England, where nothing works any more”. Or is my experience of trying to use the Deutsche Bahn unusual?
Martin Weale
Professor of Economics
King’s College, London. WC2, UK