Bush and Blair slated by Pinter
Most politicians "are interested not in truth but in power and the maintenance of that power", the 75-year-old writer Harold Pinter said in his lecture as winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.
His lecture, entitled Art, Truth and Politics, studied the importance of truth in art before decrying its perceived absence in politics.
He said politicians feel it is "essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives".
"You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good."
[Pinter, whose plays include The Birthday Party and Betrayal, was announced the winner of the $1.3m (£740,000) cash prize in October.]
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