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Which is worse about the Liberals’ high-handed imposition of an unwilling chair on the House of Commons Status of Women committee? The contempt for Parliament or the contempt for truth? I’m going with contempt for truth. Once you have that, everything else falls out of place pretty reliably.

It may be a bit of a “K1A” issue, obsessing commentators and the political class while normal people go about their lives. But arrogant dishonesty in government doesn’t go away if you ignore it. So let’s talk about truth.

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It has lately become a key element of virtue-signalling to deplore Donald Trump as a “post-truth” president. But he did not arise in a vacuum.

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A culture respectful of truth-telling across various partisan divides, intellectual and political, would have rejected his indifference to facts as abhorrent and bizarre. But Democrats proud of the Clintons were in no position to express credible outrage at Trump. And it’s not just American politicians.