- Quote - "True is such a twentieth-century concept. The question is, can I get you to believe it, can I get it repeated enough"
- Quote - "It is a matter not so much of concealing as of withholding and what is withheld is not so much the truth as the facts"
- In Remembrance - Hiroshima bomb survivor Sunao Tsuboi dies at 96
- Matters because involves standards, rules & integrity in public office.. once those values erode - can ever expect to get back?
- Quote - "Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides"
- Poem - For the Fallen
- Poem - In Flanders Fields
- Quote - "So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge"
- Quote - "My mission is to seek beauty, find humour, and bring joy"
- Word of the day is 'podsnappery' (19th century, from Dickens): 'insular complacency and blinkered self-satisfaction'
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