The front page of the Sun today reads “Beckham slaps slapper with £5m writ”. Yes it’s the on going utterly pointless story of whether David Beckham has had an affair. My first reaction was one of utter indifference to the whole thing, I don’t care if Beckham has slept with women for money, I don’t [...]

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 [...]