We’ve had enough of the riddles and the half-truths

Andreas Paschalides is throwing his toys out of the pram. He felt his statement on the outcome of the criminal investigation into videogate had been “distorted to serve political agendas.” Fair enough, there’s no shortage of bad-faith operators out there who love a good misreading. But Paschalides needs to wake up to something too: people are sick to the back teeth of half-truths and riddles.

His statement last Monday was practically an invitation to be misread and twisted. Even those who read...