Empty talk, bluster, and no way out…

Empty talk and bluster. Oh, really? For once, a criminal investigator, appointed to look into a scandal or a major case that gripped the whole country (in this instance, the infamous Videogate affair), actually came out and said it that plainly.

Empty talk and bluster, then, Mr Paschalides. Because, as you yourself point out, the footage that made it into the public domain wasn’t authentic but the product of editing (spliced together, in other words). As if the terminology you’ve chosen is...