One of the less convincing bits of world-building in 1984 is the whole "taking in every printed copy of The Times and returning it once Winston Smith had corrected it" thing Thanks internet… (View Post)

Much of what is written about anything is a touch exaggerated here and there, or has flaws in the factual details, but is mostly pretty accurate. If a story is about something you know about, you can… (View Post)

Higher rate taxpayers. (View Post)

And are confident that they can achieve their aims during working hours, rather than skulking round when the building is unoccupied. Elon is in the Oval Office, making "vroom vroom" noises … (View Post)

There's another thing. A lot of Trump's rolling back of the woke is words. Some of those words have real consequences, but many of them (like there are only two genders) don't. Because… (View Post)