Everyday Lies

World Class

On a phrase used by people with brains of tinsel

Graphs

By means of proper framing, graphs can lie like a parliamentary candidate

“Community”

Am I really part of the EasyJet community?

Ghost in the machine

Does the printer really “experience” anything?

Diego Maradona was not a victim

We have no sense of the tragic, only of victimhood, says Theodore Dalrymple

NHS propaganda

No rainbow-painting child could possibly understand the relative performance, good or bad, of the NHS

Public spending and public health

Theodore Dalrymple says the connection between expenditure and result is extremely tenuous

Lies of the British Medical Journal

The thirst for power that hides behind diversity

Online banking’s ‘great service’

Dealing with your bank online makes the Labyrinth seem like a Roman Road

Death: a walk in the park

Everyday lies with Theodore Dalrymple