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Why The Public Doesn’t Deserve The News
It depends on the habit of attending to and looking into public transactions, and on the degree of information and solid judgment respecting them that exists in the community, whether the conduct of the nation as a nation, both within itself and towards others, shall be selfish, corrupt and tyrannical, or rational and enlightened, just…
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Lord Hutton – Apologia pro Vita Sua
Lord Hutton has published an article on media reaction to his report. Let’s ignore the fact that his footnotes on page one spell Freedland as Friedland. Typo! He’s obviously one unhappy bunny. Which is a shame. I teach the Hutton Inquiry to postgraduate students. And I happen to think – in hindsight – that he…