‘The tyranny of denial’: ‘An accusation of ‘denial’ is serious, suggesting either deliberate dishonesty or self-deception’
'The thing being denied is, by implication, so obviously true that the denier must be driven by perversity, malice or wilful blindness. Few issues warrant such confidence...One of the great achievements of the Enlightenment—the liberation of historical and scientific enquiry from dogma—is quietly being reversed'
