IT has become more apparent and important that we need a complete change in the way we are governed and by whom, as the words of George Orwell ring with truth: “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind”, or in the words of Benjamin Disraeli on politics: “The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.”
M Hawkins, Langley Park, Durham.
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