Spies' secrets in honest budget

By Markus Mannheim
Updated April 18 2018 - 11:03pm, first published June 9 2012 - 3:00am

Government ministers and their flacks do much these days to ''control the public narrative''. They set the daily news agenda, sieve the information that enters the public domain, and, more than occasionally, suppress politically unpalatable facts. They spin.

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