Long Interview: Gavin Esler

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Fake news, false facts have ushered in a new age of "un-enlightenment", so believes this week’s Long Interview subject the award-winning former BBC journalist Gavin Esler. Speaking at the Wigtown Book Festival, where he gave the prestigious Magnusson Lecture, he talks about the loss of faith in expertise and the rise of populism in America.