Telling the truth, of course. Everyone is after Ken Livingston, mayor of London, for his comments on terrorism. For example: “I think the particular problem we have at the moment is that in the 1980s the Americans recruited and trained Osama bin Laden, taught him how to kill, to make bombs and sent him off to kill the Russians in Afghanistan and they didn’t give any thought to the fact that once he had done that, he might turn on his creators.” “I have not the slightest doubt that, if at the end of the First World War we had … Continue reading What Gets a Politician in Trouble