Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.

He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work.

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.