Bertie Ahern, Taoiseach (or “prime minister”) of Ireland, has an article in yesterday’s Gazeta Wyborcza. While it is too boring to read, one thing does stand out: the man’s impeccable Polish (no translator is credited). Unless – perish the thought – a Polish politician or bureaucrat wrote it and Ahern just put his name to the end of it. But how could he know that his thoughts and those of the Polish speech writer would coincide? Could that degree of groupthink exist in democratic political elites?