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Feb

Questionable Comment

   Posted by: Julia Redlich   in News

King Richard III is not here today to challenge Opposition Business Manager Christopher Pyne’s remarks in Question Time on 8 February, implying that the last Plantagenet king was a serial murderer.

On King Richard’s behalf, may I suggest that Mr Pyne’s choice of relaxing fiction to read (even if written by Shakespeare) after his exhausting days as a politician is replaced by some serious historical research.

Surely he would be very put out if, in the future, his life was blackened by someone who couldn’t be bothered to check a few facts and offer a balanced opinion.

(You might like to read an earlier entry, drawing attention to the misuse of the same historical person by the same politician.)

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