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The Easter story reminds us of the importance of truth

The Spectator
 Morten Morland
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 19 April 2025
issue 19 April 2025

Live not by lies, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn warned the West half a century ago, but we have hardly heeded him since. Fictions have bewitched our minds and captured our culture. Hard truths struggle to be heard. Last week BBC presenters took the leader of the opposition to task for her failure to watch a Netflix drama, Adolescence, which purported to explore the risks to young women from misogyny.

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