Doublethink according to Orwell’s 1984 is “To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them” essentially it is to hold two mutually exclusive beliefs as correct. I can [...]
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Over the weekend I went to a local café and ordered a chicken panini, after ordering I was told that they could not toast my panini because they were not allowed to reheat chicken due to health and safety. My word, I thought, you couldn’t make it up! Except you could or rather they could; [...]
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Thanks to Susie who wrote the title to this blog in her email subject which contained the link to this video: Now I know the video is a month old, but if the tabloids can resort to pulling up articles from 8 years ago in order to slur Nick Clegg I see no reason why I can’t bring this [...]
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People are doing something that is upsetting the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail has got so upset at this behaviour that they have called the public ‘utterly irrational’, and The Daily Mail knows what being irrational looks like. What on earth could this be? What could the public be doing that would upset the powers [...]
