Authoritarianism

NewSpeak

In 1984 George Orwell introduced Newspeak. This was an attempt to remove words from the language of which Big Brother did not approve. Words such as revolution. The theory being that if words did not [more…]

Economics

Grown Ups

From the very second that Labour were confirmed as election winners the usual suspects have been wittering on about having the grown ups back in charge. Let’s see how that has been working out. Political [more…]

Conservatives

1,826

Unfortunately, I don’t write much these days, as sitting in front of a computer for anything other than a short time I find truly wearying. Typing anything exhaustive on a tablet is impossible, and despite [more…]