If there were to be a nadir of democratic politics, in the sense of public apathy towards truthfulness in their politicians, even in the strange world of 2016, we may not yet have reached it.The unprecedented election of a seemingly pathological liar to the post of leader of the Free World is pretty bad. But… Continue reading Labour must fight the cancer of post-truth politics, not sign up to it
Month: November 2016
Article 50: we do not have to lay down and roll over
As we reel from the shock of a Trump victory, it would be easy now to lose sight of our own problems as a country. But they remain the same as they were last Tuesday. Since June, we have rapidly become a country which most of its neighbours now look at with a mixture of… Continue reading Article 50: we do not have to lay down and roll over