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Objective truth is critically important. It is one of the greatest defences of our liberty

“There’s just as much truth in what I remember and how I remember it as there is in so-called objective facts.” SO SAYS PRINCE HARRY, and it’s lucky he thinks this because Spare, where this profound philosophical reflection on epistemology can be found, has a number of rather well-recorded moments where the truth as he remembers it (hearing, for example, about the Queen Mother’s death in his room at Eton) do not stand up to the so-called objective facts (his actually being in Switzerland with his father and brother when the news broke, and having to make a well-publicised return from holiday). There are many other examples in the book of situations where, as the late Queen put it, “recollections may vary” and I don’t really want to rehearse them…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2023

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