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There are lies, damn lies ... and then there's New Labour; NON-FICTION.

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From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20050425
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Byline: DAVID MELLOR

The Rise Of Political Lying

Peter Oborne

TWO centuries ago Thomas Carlyle said the role of the politician was "to plaster together the true and the false, and therefrom to manufacture the credible".

So, political lying is nothing new, nor in this impeccably argued book does Peter Oborne suggest it is. Indeed to prove it, he goes all the way back to Plato's rather tortured argument that the ruling elite has a right to lie, which must be denied to the rest of us.

No, New Labour didn't invent lying, but as Oborne readily demonstrates, they ...

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