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Politicians and lying

Lord Soley 05/12/2010 – 11:55 pm

'All politicians are liars'. Or are they? It's a difficult pitch to defend in the present climate but in my long experience I think most politicians are no more or less truthful then the average person. What a politician says is very often recorded either by the media or by Hansard. So unless you are particularly careful you can easily find yourself struggling to defend something that you said whi […]

Written at 11:55 pm on 05/12/2010, by Lord Soley


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Custard and politicians

Lord Soley 08/03/2009 – 11:15 pm

There is something deep in the British psyche that has given a long history to custard throwing and most of us in politics have experienced it in some form at one time or another. Sometimes our families are in the firing line. Many years ago my partner was hit by an egg when she answered the door - eggs hurt incidentally. I thought Peter Mandelson emerged from his experience with much more respec […]

Written at 11:15 pm on 08/03/2009, by Lord Soley


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Public attitudes towards the press

Lord Norton 19/11/2008 – 10:22 am

I received yesterday a copy of the survey of public attitudes towards conduct in public life carried out by BMRB Social Research for the Committee on Standards in Public Life.   The survey, conducted earlier this year, covers the media as well as politicians.  Its findings on the media tend to reinforce the points made in my earlier post on confidence in the press. The survey found that the p […]

Written at 10:22 am on 19/11/2008, by Lord Norton


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