Obviously he has done extensive thinking and research for his book and as a Harvard and Oxford Graduate in economics he brings in this topic effortlessly without overworking the audience. He knew exactly what he was talking about.*fist pump*Īs I previously mentioned, I thoroughly enjoyed this event.

Nevertheless he saw straight through her and put her in her place. The second segment involved Georgina Godwin interviewing him on topical questions and elements of his book and finally some questions from the audience in which he was tested, deciding whether or not to create a bullshit detector and having a women from the third row attempt to twist his views and words to squeeze out an opinion he didn’t necessarily have. The theory of it and the connection between bullshit and 2016 which heavily involved Trump and Brexit, were covered and explained briefly as this is what his book, “Post Truth, Peak Bullsh*t” is all about. He started with a 20 minute intro to bullshit. It may have been one of my favourite event of the manic week for a lot of reasons. (Clich é alert) To say we ended on a high with Evan Davis would be an understatement. I internally wept a silent tear whilst leaving Montpellier Park’s bustle of couples and families, smells of hog roast and fresh books and abundance of joy it brings to the town centre for the 10 days of October.

The final review of the Cheltenham Literature Festival 2017. Follow him on Twitter can be bought online, over the phone from At-Bristol on 01 (Monday-Friday 9-5) or in person at At-Bristol's Welcome Desk.Alas, the time has come. He was the Political Studies Association broadcaster of the Year he won a bronze Sony Award as Speech Broadcaster of the Year and the Made in Britain programme won the Harold Wincott Foundation Business Television Programme of the Year award. Prior to Today he was the Economics Editor of the BBC, the most senior economics reporter in the corporation. He was a presenter on Radio 4's The Today programme for six years. Why are company annual reports often nonsense? Why should you not trust estate agents? And above all, why has political campaigning become the art of stretching the truth? Drawing on behavioural science, economics, psychology and his knowledge of the media, he provides us with a tool-kit to handle the kinds of deceptions we encounter every day and charts a route through the muddy waters of the post-truth age.Įvan Davis presents the current affairs programme Newsnight on BBC 2 The Bottom Line on Radio 4 and Dragons’ Den on BBC 2. He sets out the surprising logic which explains why deception is both pervasive and persistent.

Evan Davis steps inside the panoply of deception employed in all walks of life and assesses how it has come to this.

Post-Truth by Evan Davis