all readers will have benefited from the work of John Logie Baird (TV), Watt (steam engine), Dunlop (pneumatic tyre), McAdam (tarmac roads), Kirkpatrick Macmillan (bicycle), Napier (logarithms), Fleming (penicillin), Maxwell (his equations) and others too numerous to mention. Of course jingoistic nationalism isn't really a rationally defensible attitude. These white men