The War on Words: a threat to democracy

In her speech at the UN two years ago, Jacinda Ardern argued that words had become the new weapon of war, it was a comment that Lord Jonathan Sumption told me he found 'profoundly sinister'.

Philip Crump and Lord Jonathan Sumption (photo: Mark Mitchell)

Earlier this week, Donald Trump became only the second sitting or former U.S. president, after Gerald Ford, to have survived two failed assassination attempts. Events in the United States over the last month have been a stark reminder of how political rhetoric can become dangerously charged.

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