Words sometimes tell truths which the increasingly empty discourse of politics prefers to keep hidden.
In these places of empty politics, apparently, there are no real people, only caricatures.
What we're seeing, as the last dregs of Millbank champagne are emptied, is the familiar brew of politics: ambition, vitriol, pique, calculation.
As the aftermath of the G20 plays out on the world stage, Upton's production not only champions the language of love but draws out the dangers of empty rhetoric in politics, too.
It leaves the viewer feeling pretty empty and sorrowful about the necessities of war and the obsessions of politics.
It might be a simple aberration, when by dumb, unfortunate luck we are faced with political choices that put the empty promises of personality politics ahead of the considered and complex policy prescriptions that might be better suited to the unique challenges of our moment.
ANNALS OF POLITICS about Lyndon Johnson.
He stays out of politics.
Spin is part of politics.
