LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017 How do we discuss serious ideas in the age of 24-hour news? What was rhetoric in the past & what should it be now? & what does Islamic State have in common with Donald Trump? We've never had more information or more opportunity to debate the issues of the day Yet the relationship between politicians the media & the public is characterised by suspicion mistrust & apathy What has gone wrong? Enough Said reveals how political social & technological change has transformed our political landscape
- & how we talk about the issues that affect us all Political rhetoric has become stale & the mistrust of politicians has made voters flock to populists who promise authenticity honesty & truth instead of spin evasiveness & lies Featuring Ronald Reagan & Sarah Palin Tony Blair & George Osborne Silvio Berlusconi & many more star performers Enough Said shows how public language is losing its power & how an ominous gap is opening between the governed & those who govern The result of decades of first-hand experience of politics & media this is an essential brilliant diagnosis of what we should stop doing & what we should start doing in order to reinvigorate Western democracy