Post Truth is the self-deception that politicians, commentators, pundits, media, and the various other denizens of the SW1 bubble are trying to convince themselves of to make sense about the fact that they’re only beginning to realise that their viewpoint, opinions and policies, announcements, strategies and so on, are completely and utterly ignored by nearly everyone in the world, and that the general public have their own values and priorities that do not match those of the people that purport to represent us.
For example: George Osborne (of all people) is currently writing a book with the barely believable title of “The Age of Unreason” this from a man who has throughout his political career lied almost continuously about everything, and used “project fear” twice with varying success…