The fourth kind of lies

How important it is to have a statue! It is much more convincing than a photograph, always more convincing than a model. But Benjamin Disraeli, politician, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, writer, deserves his statue. I would have carved an equestrian one for him, for this thought: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." If he had known about election polls in their heyday, he would have added a fourth kind of l…