Madam, – What do each of the following words have in common? procrastinate, obfuscate, abdicate, alienate, oscillate, prevaricate, capitulate, decimate, inadequate, innumerate, manipulate, repudiate, intoxicate? Apart from the obvious – that they all relate to our abject political leadership, each word ends in “ate”. Coincidentally, so does the word “Senate”! – Yours, etc,