It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.

It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation savaging our sentences raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.

It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.