Lies, damned lies and elections
Opinion: As we get closer to the election, what was previously a pile of untruths is now an unstable slag heap, one which threatens to engulf democracy.
"The really frightening thing about totalitarianism is not that it commits 'atrocities' but that it attacks the concept of objective truth; it claims to control the past as well as the future."
The above comment, from George Orwell, is something worth remembering in this epoch of “fake news” as
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Lies, damned lies and elections
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