This war is a festival of lies and they will only get worse - 9/11

Sat, 22 May 2021 09:58:51 GMT

So it begins. The flashes of light in the night sky, the distant explosions, the appearance of a relentless George Bush talking command and control. We slowly remember what war is like; but we need to remember, too, that truth is the first casualty of conflict, that the briefers, bureaucrats and politicians who act as reasonably reliable sources in peace are operating now under different house rules. That they have become wholly unreliable by design.