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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

Jim Riley

1st July 2009

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A General Election can’t be far away when combatants like Lord Mandelson and George Osborne start trading insults. It will be interesting to see what alternatives to actually using the word “liar” or “lying” the politicians can come up with. Mandelson has a go today suggesting that Osborne is telling “deliberate untruths”. Keep watching for more creative ways of saying the same thing…

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Jim Riley

Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.

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