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Economy in trouble? Need a feel-good factor? Then roll out the R-word

John Dales
25 November 2016
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… whose Autumn Statement was partly an expression of this alter ego

 

As you may recently have seen, Oxford Dictionaries declared their Word of the Year for 2016 to be “post-truth”, defining it as an adjective “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”.

However, while the OD folk show very clearly how the use of the (hyphenated) word has indeed spiked during the past year (or, rather, if we’re being truthful, the past half...

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John Dales

John Dales

John Dales MSC BSC MCIHT CMILT Director, Urban Mov

John Dales is a streets design adviser to local authorities around the UK, a member of several design review panels, and one of the London mayor’s design advocates. He is a past chair of the Transport Planning Society, a former trustee of Living Streets, and a committee member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety. He is director of transport planning and street design consultancy Urban Movement. 

 

j.dales@urbanmovement.co.uk
+44 (0)7768 377 150
www.johndales.com

 

 
 
 

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