‘So tell me, why can’t we trust politicians?’

The troubles with trust and ‘the truth’ in democratic politics

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In a TED Talk on ‘Why democracy matters’ Rory Stewart tells a little joke. He recounts the story of a schoolboy: “let’s call him Little Billy” who is one day asked by his teacher what his father does for a living. The boy replies ‘my father plays the piano in an opium den’. So…