With the election of Donald Trump to the US presidency and the victory of the Leave campaign in Britain's EU referendum, 2016 has been a year that has bewildered many analysts.

Reflecting the political upheavals in both Britain and America, Oxford Dictionaries has announced a joint US-UK word of the year: "post-truth".

The word is an adjective, defined in the dictionary as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”.

The word beat competition from “adulting,” “alt-right,” “Brexiteer,” “glass cliff” and “woke”.