Poor Mr Orwell must be rolling in his grave this week alone. Anything in this thread strike a chord? All eerily apropos: ‘The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.’ /1
‘The insularity of the English, their refusal to take foreigners seriously, is a folly that has to be paid for very heavily from time to time.’ /2
’Intellectual honesty is a crime in any totalitarian country; but even in England it is not exactly profitable to speak and write the truth.’ /3
‘In England such concepts as justice, liberty and objective truth are still believed in. They may be illusions, but they are very powerful illusions.’ /4
'Political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.’ /5
‘Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.’ /6
‘Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.’ /7
It’s almost as if he anticipated Brexit. /8

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