Lord Chris Patten, former governor of Hong Kong and chairman of the BBC and, presently, chancellor of Oxford University, speaking at a conference organised by the Blackfriars in Oxford on truth telling and politics and reported in The Tablet (December 16) said:

“People do not care much for the truth anymore. Truthiness means that it must be true because I have said it. Thus, when challenged as economising with the truth, people respond: who believes experts nowadays.”

Does not the above statement reflect what is happening in the local scene?

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