Dear Sir,
On today's front page of the European edition, you print a scaremongering story about a possible brain drain from France should Ségolène Royal be elected, recalling what one could read in the "good old times" of the Cold War in the 70s ("French industry warns of brain drain").

While it is your job to report what France's top leaders are saying, it would also be appropriate to provide facts on the matter - facts that you actually printed in your own columns not so long ago... In your edition dated 18 May 2006, Simon Briscoe presented a graph showing the net migrations of graduates to and from various countries in the early 2000s. That graph (attached) showed that France was the only major European country without a large brain drain to other industrialised countries, while the highest brain drain occurred with respect to the UK. And this was at a time when France had a left-wing government, even including communist ministers!

It's entirely the prerogative of the Financial Times to oppose Ségolène Royal's candidature, but it is distressing that such bias seems to inappropriately influence the reporting in what is meant to be factual articles. The reputation of your newspaper would be better served if such opinions were kept to the editorial section, where they belong, and carefully avoided in front page headlines.