"Perhaps we should try, before the year's out", writes Howard Jacobson, " to agree on the International Word of 2016 - the word that most describes where we've been these last 12 months".
"Post-truth", "Trump" and "Farage" are all in the running.
But in the end, Jacobson's chooses "people" as in "the people have spoken" for his Word of the Year.
Producer: Adele Armstrong.
