Lies

Someone a little smarter than me should write about the different kinds of lies we are told. I see a kind of spectrum from Putin’s categorical “deny everything” strategy, which is a kind of admission of guilt; to Israel’s insistence of stringent abidance by international legal standards (statements like “Israel is and will remain a state governed by the rule of law, committed to upholding…” bla bla bla) which nobody believes any more; to Trump’s wild proclamations, which he knows his supporters will love but everyone else will pull out their hair; to keeping up the appearance of good governance, backed by a set of questionable facts – maybe cases like the Starmer government?, to lies based on the pretence that while you know your decisions are awful, you really have no choice, because the alternatives would be even worse – who? – maybe Macron?