If the public regards last night's showdown with healthy cynicism, it's not because they don't care about the most important election in decades.

We need a healthy cynicism when it comes to politicians.

There will be some healthy cynicism, too.

And he and his most famous work have remained synonymous with the utmost political cynicism ever since.

It started as a piece of airy political cynicism; it was compounded by an act of dark political opportunism.

Anonymous challenges the creeping conformity created by expanding surveillance, and the political cynicism engendered by rampant inequality.

Phoney pledges and simplistic promises have contributed to voter cynicism, he says.

Let me suggest a better way of dispelling voter cynicism.

Both are in denial about last week's verdict and both therefore risk fuelling voter cynicism about politics.

These things matter because a series of scandals has led to widespread cynicism about pensions, when healthy scepticism would be more helpful.

What a tragedy for the oldest democracy in the world that one selfish, empty sorry excuse for a man can inflict such widespread cynicism.

I am familiar with widespread cynicism.