As Orwell described it in 1984, the Memory Hole was the means by which The Party controlled the past, the present and the future. When history was only ever what The Party said it was, the present was only ever what the Party said it was. Oceania is at war
David Seymour ACT Party Leader It’s important that any lessons taken from Liz Truss’s downfall are based on actual data. The risk is New Zealand takes the wrong lesson from lazy analysis, particularly those on the political left who bleat on like the sheep in Animal Farm: tax
October 19th 2022. If a writer was to pitch the current events to a BBC commissioning editor as political mystery series it would be given short shrift as it possessing not a shred of reality. Today saw the “resignation” of the Home Secretary Suella Braverman after a mere 40 days
Steve Schifferes City, University of London Andrew Burlinson Catherine Waddams University of East Anglia Brian Scott-Quinn University of Reading Morten O. Ravn UCL Steven McCabe Birmingham City University Professor Schifferes was Marjorie Deane Professor of Financial Journalism and the first Director of the Financial Journalism MA at City from 2009-2017,
Jack thecommoner.substack.com Information Opinion It’s quite something that the clown world in which we now live has evolved to such a terrifying degree that Piers Morgan — of all people — somehow believes he is best placed to arbitrate an entire planet’s sense of morality, but sadly, that
October 17th 2022. It’s been a while since my last letter as I have been laid low with non-covid Covid. All the benefits and symptoms but with negative tests. This is apparently a not uncommon occurrence in parts of the country. The remedy recommended was the same as it
As the trial of Bruce Lehrmann, accused of raping Brittany Higgins at Parliament House in 2019, remains on hold, the social media left are in full flight. Higgins has been “unavailable to take the stand”, mid-testimony, all week. That hasn’t stopped her supporters screeching day and night. How dare
Information Opinion In February 1746, various political heavyweights threw a massive tantrum with King George II. One thing led to another and the entire cabinet, including Prime Minister Pelham, resigned en masse. The King, scratching his head as to what he should do next, asked William Pulteney, Lord Bath, to
Justin Roberts Anglia Ruskin University Henry Chung University of Essex Justin is an Associate Professor in Health and Exercise Nutrition with a focus on applied and health-based nutrition. Henry Chung’s background is in Sport & Exercise Sciences, where he completed his Sports Science BSc (2012 – 2015) and Sport &
Now it is 1984 Knock knock at your front door It’s the suede/denim secret police The Dead Kennedys, “California Uber Alles” It’s taken nearly 40 years since the calendar ticked over to 1984, but we’re finally arriving at the panopticon authoritarian surveillance state that Orwell warned
One of the few delights of social media is watching parody Twitter accounts dupe the gullible and perpetually outraged. Pioneer of the art form, Godfrey Elfwick, is long gone under the banhammer, but the likes of RPGuy continue the fine tradition of satirising the Twitter left so effectively that it’
Ann Farmer mercatornet.com Ann Farmer, mother of three, grandmother of five and permanently disabled, is based in Woodford Green, Essex. She is a poet, illustrator, writer and pro-life feminist devoted to defending the natural family and the weakest in society from abortion and euthanasia. She has published a number
Peter Imanuelsen petersweden.substack.com Do you remember when people were called crazy conspiracy theorists for suggesting that we were heading in the direction of social credit scores? Surely that could never happen in free Western democratic countries, right? Just like we would never have police patrolling the streets and
Every day, I breathe a sigh of relief that our kids made it through 12 years of public education and, in one case, a university degree, without being brainwashed into climate’n’gender zealotry. You can say that the fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree, but I wouldn’
The police are supposed to be the thin blue line that stands between law-abiding citizens and criminal anarchy. In Australia, though, it’s become the thin blue protection racket standing between the Establishment Left and anyone who dares challenge them. In Wellington, too, police filmed themselves exchanging triumphant high-fives after
As reported recently on the BFD, an Irish teacher has been sentenced to jail in a dispute over “preferred pronouns”. This is the sort of brutal authoritarianism that Jordan Peterson tried to warn us would inevitably follow in the wake of enforced “pronoun” speech. Now, another victim is feeling the
