Scams Exposed By Peter Hitchens.

25 years ago, the fastest train on a route I know well took 45 minutes to complete its journey. Now, the same train does the same run in 60 minutes. So, by the standards of 1988, all the trains are late. But the official figures trumpet a steadily rising standard of punctuality. And they are true. But they are also a lie. It doesn’t take much of a mental jump to see how the same thing has been done with A-levels and GCSEs.
Crime, as I have discussed here, is manipulated by simply reclassifying wrongdoing so that millions of actions simply cease to be crimes, and are not pursued or recorded. Crime down. Misery up. Job done, as Mr Blair might have said. Unemployment falls because people are cleverly no longer listed as unemployed, even though they would like to work and haven’t got jobs.
The arithmetical magic by which the Government claims to be cutting public spending while increasing it, and cutting borrowing while borrowing more, doubtless has some similar fiddle behind it. But the really astonishing thing about this Wonderland of Blatant Lies is that so many people believe what they’re told.
My advice is to keep an eye on the value of the pound sterling abroad, and on the price of gold.
People elsewhere in the world are beginning to realise what sort of country this is, and some figures cannot be fiddled.
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Peter is perfectly correct about this use of Stalinist sleight of timetable. Exactly the same is true with air flights.
The time of most flights to Spain that I took in the 1970s was two to two and a quarter hours.
With better and more modern aircraft - they are generally listed at two hours 50 minutes. Lo and behold - they frequently arrive a whole 20 minutes early! Er ....