Letter: High point of the political cycle

Friday 21 March 1997 00:02 GMT

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Sir: Polly Toynbee ("Don't let them tell you it doesn't matter who wins", 18 March) says that when listening to Labour we must "trust that they are lying through their teeth".

This is my father's paradox of Epimenides the Cretan, who said that all Cretans were liars. If he was lying, he was telling the truth; but if he was telling the truth, he was lying. It took my father 10 years to crack this paradox. If Polly Toynbee can do it in less, she is a better philosopher than my father was.

Earl RUSSELL

House of Lords

London SW1

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