WE hear them debating both inside and out of parliament. We know that democracy is blooming. We track the politicians who say, ‘we are searching for the truth’. But I think this is misplaced presumption. Or a pose. Because the ambition of a democracy is not, or cannot possibly be, ‘truth’.

If we view democracy as a system and procedure of political decision-making, we see that it is both premised upon and ends up in a state that is alway