A Good Place to Bury Bad News? Hiding the Detail in the Geography on the Labour Party’s Website

Abstract

But actually, he thought as he re–adjusted the Ministry of Plenty’s figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connexion with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connexion that is contained in a direct lie. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version.