It is no longer in the natural order of things to tell the truth in public affairs. PolitiFact, the independent fact-checking website in America, found that President Trump told the truth in only 16% of the statements he made in his campaign to be elected.
The campaign for Britain to exit the European Union was won in good part by shouting day after day the outright lie that membership of the EU was costing Britain £350 million per week.
The Oxford English Dictionary summed up the state of affairs by naming ‘post-truth’ as its word for 2016 – defining the term as follows: “denoting circumstances in which objective facts are
