> For a democracy to work you need a basis of shared facts This is an Achilles' Heel which is unfortunately now well known by the enemies of democracy. An art

> For a democracy to work you need a basis of shared facts This is an Achilles' Heel which is unfortunately now well known by the enemies of democracy. An article from last year[0] highlighted this quite well: > The Kremlin specialises in offering alternative “narratives”: about who poisoned Sergei Skripal and Alexander Litvinenko, for example. The goal is to confuse the public and to spread the idea that the truth is unknowable. It’s a form of epistemological warfare. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2020/jul/12/covering-russia-and-the-west-putins-goal-is-to-make-the-truth-unknowable https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2020/jul/12/covering-...