There was a clue to the lack of Galileo's viability when the commercial partners pulled out (Galileo is an EU vanity project say MPs).

If you are using a line such as "we can't trust the US" (Galileo magnifico, Letters blog, letters.computing.co.uk), why stop at Galileo? We had better scrap Trident and build nukes from scratch, start a separate internet, and ground all Boeings.

The billions would be much better spent saving lives and educating children.

Robert Stevens