Politicians boasting about the women they’ve slept with is not candour: it’s spin

Rod Liddle says that Nick Clegg’s toe-curling remarks are part of a deceitful tendency in the political class to tell us things about themselves that we don’t want to know rather than speaking the truth about policy

From magazine issue: 05 April 2008

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