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"We are entering a new age of savagery and organised lying that would have been almost unthinkable in western democracies just a generation ago. As in the 1930s, our society is becoming increasingly irrational, frightening and violent. And this is mirrored in the coarsening of our political language and the daily workings of our political system, where populists routinely lie, peddle conspiracy theories, and stoke racial, cultural, gender and class divisions...