Rewriting history

You know, if someone makes an apology or says "Hey, I got that wrong", then ninety-nine times out of a hundred I'm going to immediately let them off the hook. We all make mistakes, right? Owning them is the important thing. Conversely, I find it extremely annoying when people try to deny a mistake or rewrite history.

Regrettably, Arthur Ransome - an author I otherwise adore - tried to airbrush the Altounyan children out of their role in his creation of 'Swallows and Amazons' despite three of their four names being used for the children of the Walker family and having credited them appropriately in the first edition. (It's a fact I'm reminded of whenever I use this mug although I have long forgiven his vanity.)

And while Dominic Cummings had, I thought, reached rock bottom in my estimation of him, it transpired he had considerably further to plummet when I read that he had edited an old blog post to make it look as though he foresaw the Coronavirus pandemic.

Of course, the rewriting of history is a common Brexiter habit. The time of no downsides and only considerable upsides has long since passed and now we are expected to believe that it was always clear there would be some short term pain for the longer term's gain. (As far as I can see, the only gain we'll have in the long term is when we're allowed back in the EU.)

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Reading: 'Troubled Blood' by Robert Galbraith