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The lie of the political land.(Book Review)

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

The Rise of Political Lying

by Peter Oborne

(Free Press, [pounds sterling]7.99)

TWO centuries ago Thomas Carlyle maintained 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 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, to prove it.

No, New Labour didn't invent ...

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