Post-truth politics: How to combat?
Since Brexit - no, even before Brexit - I have been scared. Since Brexit, that fear has been given a name: post-truth politics. Normally, once things have been given names the fear lessens. Not with this one. Post-truth politics sounds all very sanitised - like something future generations will study with the same barely-contained yawn as the post-war consensus, or post-Thatcherite consensus. Unfortunately though, this particular idea is one that does threaten our society. It
