Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘Philip Hammond’

Media doublethink hits all-time high

It’s annoying to have to wade through swamps of manure in order to find the truth. This evening I had a conversation with my brother Tim about doublethink, a term coined by George Orwell in his dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-four. Doublethink is the ability to accept two mutually contradictory beliefs. It’s part of newspeak, the…

 

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Big news from Syria, Sinai, and Iran

When there’s big news, back pain must be put aside. First, we have this. The British government has suspended all flights between the UK and the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh after US and UK officials said they believe the Russian plane that crashed over the Sinai peninsula may have been brought down by an…

 

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