BY PAUL T HORGAN SW1, Friday February 6, 2026: Politician “Shocked” That He Has Been Lied To There was outrage in Westminster, when a leading politician admitted he was “shocked” that he had been lied to by another, but less leading, politician who had once been a quite leading politician before having been forced to quit over questions of honesty a few times. That politicians lie … Continue reading ‘Shocked’
BY JOE NUTT I’ve been a sports participant and a fan all my life. So one of very few things I can hand-on-heart thank the world of television for, besides Basil Fawlty and Noggin the Nog, is its near magical ability to gift me the joy of spectating, even when I can’t be there. I’ve been known to watch an entire stage of a cycling … Continue reading Lift Music Journalism
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN One notices, if one pays attention at all, that we have entered an era where the superlative has murdered the substantive. Where once we measured statements by their truth, we now appraise them by their capacity to startle. A headline declaring ‘Tax Policy Revised’ gathers dust; ‘Minister Claims Eating Cold Beans ‘Worse Than Welfare Cuts’ in Tone-Deaf LBC Interview’ goes viral. It is against this … Continue reading Why I Am Cutting Off My Penis
BY JOE NUTT We are living in the age of the charlatan. Plenty of others have drawn attention to how little credible or relevant professional experience, so many members of his Majesty’s current government possess. Whether it’s Rachel from accounts or Bridget from…well nowhere really, if you don’t count mum as your employer; many of those currently exerting considerable power over all our lives appear … Continue reading The Age of the Charlatan
BY FRANK HAVILAND Telling people what they do not wish to hear is a dangerous business. As George Bernard Shaw put it: ‘If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh otherwise they’ll kill you’. History alas is hardly testament to mankind’s bonhomie, awash as it is with the bodies of those who died for their beliefs; not to mention the poor souls … Continue reading Criminalising the Truth
BY EFFIE DEANS I grew up thinking that the world would be forever divided between Communism and Capitalism, the West, and the East, for which reason the end of the Cold War with the complete intellectual defeat of socialism as an ideology came as a surprise. No one foresaw in 1980 that ten years later there would be no Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). … Continue reading The Battle for Everything
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN According to the later versions of the Brothers Grimm tales, when Rumpelstiltskin – the imp who spun straw into gold in exchange for a girl’s firstborn – was rebuffed: “He in his rage drove his right foot so far into the ground that it sank in up to his waist; then in a passion he seized the left foot with both hands … Continue reading Social Currency – Fool’s Gold
BY EFFIE DEANS What happened in Bucha? The vast majority of us have no doubt that atrocities were committed. The pictures, films and reports are convincing. We still basically trust the Western media to tell the truth. Yet the Russians deny they have done anything wrong. This is a problem, not because it will convince the majority of us that the Russian forces are innocent, … Continue reading Bucha & Truth
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Dear Truth, Last week I spent many hours looking for You in town. I had lost you. I was tired – of lifts and escalators, and overpowered by the sickly-sweet smell of perfume – when I left Selfridges. You seemed nowhere to be found. To escape the shallow like-seeking Instagram selfies and general hubbub of Oxford Street – its endless slalom between … Continue reading Dear Truth
BY EFFIE DEANS A woman studying at Abertay University has been disciplined for saying that women were born with female genitals and that it was a fact that women were generally less strong than men. This means that she has been disciplined for telling the truth. It would be interesting to find out about the political views of those who complained and those who judged … Continue reading Punished For Truth Telling
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Hello, I am Truth. I have come here today to shatter a few lies for you. Sorry to interrupt your shouting. Isn’t it funny how liars love to shout. As if an increase in volume will drown me out or somehow metamorphose falsehood into truth. Please, Mr Lammy! Pipe down just for a minute, sir, so I can make myself heard… Margaret … Continue reading In the Name of Truth
