“Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.”
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Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.
I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.