At present – and accelerated by Covid – trustworthy and fact-based journalism is under threat across the world. Fox, or Breitbart, or the self-appointed conspiracy theorists and hate-mongers of social media, are straight out of Orwell’s Ministry of Truth. The alt-right likes alt-facts. Faced with actual facts, they will argue, ‘that’s just your opinion’. This reached its apotheosis (so far) when Trump and his tribe claimed that he had won the 2020 election – when all the facts proved otherwise.
