He has mastered the use of error, omission, exaggeration, diminution, equivocation and flat denial. He has perfected casuistry, circumlocution, false equivalence and false analogy. He is equally adept at the ironic jest, the fib and the grand lie; the weasel word and the half-truth; the hyperbolic lie, the obvious lie, and the bullshit lie – which may inadvertently be true. And because he has been so famous for this skill for so long, he can use his reputation to ascend to new levels of playful paradox.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "He has mastered the use of error, omission, exaggeration, diminution, equivocation and flat denial. He has perfected casuistry, circumlocution, false equivalence and false analogy. He is equally adept at the ironic jest, the fib and the grand lie; the weasel word and the half-truth; the hyperbolic lie, the obvious lie, and the bullshit lie – which may inadvertently be true. And because he has been so famous for this skill for so long, he can use his reputation to ascend to new levels of playful paradox." in the context of "Rory Stewart "Lord of misrule" The Times Literary Supplement (6 November 2020), in a review of Tom Bower Boris Johnson: The Gambler (WH Allen); quote also reproduced in "UK coronavirus: Sweden and Germany put on quarantine list; Johnson raises Christmas hopes - as it happened" The Guardian (5 November 2020)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.