If BEIS continues Decc's track record of fact-free decision making, this surely invites a judicial review.
This latest literary hoax is likely to trigger yet more questions as to why the publishing industry has such a poor track record of fact-checking.
It seeks to transform, by literary methods that do not distort or falsify, the truthful record of fact into the truthful effect of a life being lived.
"An autobiography but not a record of fact," as the poet warns, it's a five-part work, 700 lines altogether, using a variety of formal structures and recurrent themes and symbols tightly intermeshed.
It isn't really possible to summarise this book in this way, because its glory is in the detail, in its recording of facts and lives, atmospheres and words, quirks of feeling and behaviour.
For Aristotle, empiricism, careful observation (but passive observation, not controlled experiment), is the starting point, though the aim is not merely recording of facts.
A lot of the questions asked by Justice Pariente that have to do with record kinds of facts, there are no answers to because there, of course, is the most fluid of records in this case.
A sickly, effeminate child with a disastrous self-image, he understood right away that photographs were emotionally powerful records of fact, but also magical things that could, in the right hands, make the ugliest duckling look like a presentable swan.
At the end of the century, it is photographers dedicated to the systematic recording of fact who are regarded as having produced some of the greatest works of photographic art - Atget's documenting of architectural details and neighbourhoods of old Paris, or August Sander's massive study of different classes of the German people, Citizens of the 20th Century.
