There, there, Aunty will make it sound better

You just have to love how dumb some think the public is.

Mandelson accepts tycoon claims
Lord Mandelson confirms in a letter to the Times that he met Oleg Deripaska earlier than previously acknowledged.

Now why can't our objective national broadcaster summon up the cojones, or even journalistic/editorial integrity to suggest, in print, that 'accepting a claim' that had not been 'previously acknowledged' 'earlier' rather smacks of a pol being caught telling a whopping porkie and only when cornered facing up to it.

A bit like some other media, who we don't have to co-fund... or else.

Another for the 'Truthiness Files' of 'interesting wasy of articulating something so as to avoid it being, as such, accurate, whilst trying to claim it is.

'I accept that what I have been held to account on now is not what was previously acknowledged'. Try popping that in George W's famous quote: 'Father, I cannot tell a [ ]'