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Thursday 23 May 2019

Quoted May 24

...in a debate in the House of Lords ... one of the noble lords was reported to have replies to the question whether he would mind if his daughter read Lady Chatterley's Lover that he wouldn't mind in the least, but he would mind very much if his gamekeeper read it. - Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture What's Left of It, p.57

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”-  Orwell

"Always reality asserts itself, to the confusion of those who hold false principles. They must then shout those false principles louder and louder." -- Marion Montgomery, THE TRUTH OF THINGS

In an interesting example of changing language in order to promote a political agenda, the editor of the Guardian has just ‘suggested’ (you can guess what happens to employees who beg to differ) that Guardian journalists adopt the following practices:
Use climate emergency, crisis or breakdown instead of climate change
Use global heating instead of global warming
Use wildlife instead of bio-diversity (when appropriate)
Use fish populations instead of fish stocks
Use climate science denier or climate denier instead of climate sceptic.
- Mike17

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