However difficult, truth should be the lodestar by which we choose our words and fashion our political and journalistic language, including the use of rhetoric. We all share responsibility for this. If politicians and journalists lie, it is because we want them to.

Speaker: Claire Foster-Gilbert ; Chair: Lord Judge, former Lord Chief Justice

Recorded in the Lady Chapel, Westminster Abbey, on Tuesday 20th March, 6.30pm .

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