“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” These words from WB Yeats encapsulate our current political impasse. Whereas in Yeats’ time the worst may have been persuaded by the rational, in today’s age of social media, the worst can spread their ideas with conviction – irrespective of the truth. More

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