Politics, Politicians and Strangers to the Truth

I enjoyed this opinion piece by Ian Dunt on the Dominic Cummings affair - a story of liars told by liars.

Dominic Cummings, the former chief adviser to the prime minister, sat for hours in front of a select committee of MPs, and levelled some of the most devastating accusations ever directed against a peacetime prime minister. He laid out a narrative of ineptitude, idiocy and indecision over the Covid-19 pandemic which resulted in tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths.

He told a terrible story, in which the prime minister was a liar, surrounded by liars, churning out constant lies. And he showed how that culture prevented the mistakes of the past from being unearthed and therefore did nothing to stop them from happening again in the future.

But at the end of the story was a tragic punchline. Cummings was a liar too, and therefore none of his claims would be believed.

As we've seen from the Holyrood Inquiry with its missing records, conflicting evidence, selective amnesia from key witnesses and wholesale redactions - there's no reason for Scotland to patting itself on the back.

 

Sudden, Selective Memory Loss (March 26, 2021)

Peter Brookes manages to combine Nicola Sturgeon's sudden and selection memory loss with the news that Clive Myrie is taking over as the new presenter of Mastermind.

 

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