Like all politicians, John Howard is a numbers man. Because 3.3 million Sydneysiders didn't walk across the bridge and that's the number that Howard is really concerned about. The other number that's important to Howard is the number of months to the next general election. They say a week's a long time in politics and Howard knows that after a week most people will have forgotten the walk and returned to the footy, school fees, grocery shopping - the stuff of the real world that dominates their lives. Clive Archer, Rushcutters Bay.
Falsehood is always complex, but truth has a simpler configuration.
So I will spare my knees the insult of getting caught up in Mr McGuinness's convoluted tussle with the truth. John Gill, Galston. Bob Walshe, Jannali. You recognise age is catching up with you when the things you wouldn't touch with a barge pole years ago seem to make sense. But now even Paddy McGuinness starts to make sense.