The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever...

But doesn’t add something to what has come before; but takes something away. At its most daring, it can feel like a Bat Turn, a 180-degree spin int the Batmobile. Make that a But Turn.

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

It doesn’t matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.

Your washing machine is my bathtub. Every time I see you my heart spins with desire. YA by nosit’ Moskvu shtany dlya vas, kak drozh’ babushki. (I’d wear Moscow as pants for you, like a...

Anyone can spin a victory, it’s a total loss that demands creativity

Looking back, I still can’t believe how unprofessional the news media was. So much spin, so few hard facts. All those digestible sound bites from an army of ‘experts’ all contradicting one another, all trying...

I don’t like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad.