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name: Robert  Hutton
about: As UK political correspondent for Bloomberg, Robert Hutton can be seen wandering into shot on 24-hour news, or phoning in copy in the background during prime ministerial trips abroad. It was during one such trip, waiting for a 4am plane in Jordan, that he tweeted a list of words only used by journalists. That was to become the start of his Journalese collection, Romps, Tots And Boffins. It was his experience of being not-exactly-misled on a daily basis that inspired his second book, Would They Lie To You. It's a guide to "uncommunication" - the art of not saying what you mean.His third book is the remarkable true story of MI5's operation to keep tabs on British fascists during WW2. Realising the existence of many people who wished to help G As UK political correspondent for Bloomberg, Robert Hutton can be seen wandering into shot on 24-hour news, or phoning in copy in the background during prime ministerial trips abroad. It was during one such trip, waiting for a 4am plane in Jordan, that he tweeted a list of words only used by journalists. That was to become the start of his Journalese collection, Romps, Tots And Boffins. It was his experience of being not-exactly-misled on a daily basis that inspired his second book, Would They Lie To You. It's a guide to "uncommunication" - the art of not saying what you mean.His third book is the remarkable true story of MI5's operation to keep tabs on British fascists during WW2. Realising the existence of many people who wished to help Germany win, the spies set up one of their own agents to pretend to be the Gestapo's man in Britain. In the years that followed, he found he had hundreds of recruits. And in 1945, MI5 faced a serious dilemma as they decided what to do with them all. Before joining Bloomberg in 2004, Robert worked at the Mirror and Financial Times. Having read Artificial Intelligence at Edinburgh University, he is believed to be the only member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery to have built a rugby-playing robot. Arguably his most notable contribution to journalism has been the introduction of the 'news sandwich' to the political lexicon. He lives in south east London with his wife and sons. ...more