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According to Sir David Bell (What are you reading? , 25 January), ¡°Gordon Brown was Britain¡¯s most cerebral modern prime minister¡±. Another contender is surely Harold Wilson, who was both an economist and an applied statistician. Indeed, at receptions if he could flawlessly say ¡°I am a former president of the Royal Statistical Society¡±, he would enjoy another drink.

R. E. Rawles
Honorary research fellow in psychology
University College London

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