As I write in mid February, in the White Hart on Exchange Street there are copies of a Wetherspoon’s publication, “Does Truth Matter?”. Having read it my answer is ABSOLUTELY!

I don’t pay much attention to what is euphemistically “the news” or to social media. I was unaware that newspapers had accepted as fact what some of our duly elected political representatives had said without first checking the source. I thought that was part of a journalist’s job.

Many of us older generation have memories of parents, grandparents, great grandparents who have taken the view that truth does matter. Some of us have no memories of certain individuals because they died in the cause of freedom before we were born. Free speech means that a person shall be able to go about their lawful business without being attacked, threatened or otherwise unlawfully hindered. That includes social media abuse. There is a universal law, sometimes known as karma, which says that what you do to others comes back to you with interest

David Hands