A review by paulsnelling
The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism by Peter Oborne

3.0

This is an interesting book, but short and superficial. It doesn’t tell us anything that we didn’t already know. Oborne criticises Dominic Cummings’ blog while admitting that he’s only had a quick read. That’s the tenor throughput. It is a long newspaper article, basically, and the call to action is about the length of a long editorial. We await a fuller explanation of why our politics has taken such a disastrous turn. I’d agree though that we should all write the Speakers (of Commons and Lords) and the Chair of the Standards committee. They could have been much more challenging.