Excellent insight into political porkies

The Rise Of Political Lying, by Peter Oborne, Free Press, €11.65.

Peter Oborne, political editor of the Spectator, is one of the most gifted journalists working in Britain today. A dishevelled-looking Tory who gave up a business career to join the Fourth Estate, his writings are unfailingly vivid, insightful and infused with an admirable spirit of contrariness. He is also, it has to be said, a man with a serious bee in his ...