but the democrats still want to engage in a debate they can t control. they want to point to their hand-picked experts and have their own conversation . trusting the experts is not a function of science. it s not a function of democracy. it s a function of religion and totalitarianism. and it doefs not make for a healthier population. and instead of debatingit dom or giving them a chance to explain themselves, democrat s try to shut them up. i move that we move into instead of session because mr. kennedy has repeatedly made despicable, anti-semitic,ecutiv and anti-asian comments. is it the custom of this committee to censos thatr viewps that we disagree with from witness the chairman who has not a point of order e to cen on the table? democrats wanted to censor rf a pk jr at a censorship hear. this is the party who spent spet years railing against big pharma and not trusting the science. yeiling againsw all of a suddeny they re scared of a democrat asking questions. this is
Particular aspet of politics better than anybody else. 0urjournalists are some of the best connected people. and that s partly why people pick up the spectator, to find out what s happening inside the british government. in a way it s ourjob to know these people very well, to tell readers what they are thinking and the difference between what they are saying behind closed doors and what they are saying upfront. and so that has always been part of what the spectator does. paul, perhaps this is isn t a left, right issue? you re a journalist but you recently made it to the long list for a safe labour seat. the media and the politics are intertwined. i think they increasingly are. i don t think that s - necessarily a bad thing. one of the reasons i i did, yes, hands up. it was only the long list. congratulations, that s a start. come on. i think it s no accident that in a period of crisis, - which opened up in 2008 and hasn t really- stopped, you did see - people like michael gove,
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