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Stephen Pollard

ByStephen Pollard, Stephen Pollard

Opinion

Truthiness

July 2, 2008 24:00
1 min read

This wonderful story reminds me of one about Kelvin MacKenzie.

A reader called in to complain about something in the Sun. MacKenzie asked her for the name of her newsagent. 'Why do you want to know?' she asked. 'Because from now on you're barred from buying it.' A few minutes later she rang back. 'Does that apply to my husband, too?'.

I've no idea if it actually happened, but it has definite truthiness: