How sleveen politics took control of our new State

THE attempt by your columnist Ryle Dwyer (September 13) to balance the books on political betrayal is itself a betrayal of objective journalism.

His selective nuggets lack context and give legs to lazy thinking that dismisses all politicians on the basis that one is as bad as the other.

This lies at the heart of the apathy that informs our political debate and is one of the reasons why it is difficult for enlightened politicians to engage with the electorate in a meaningful way.