Trump Bans the Press: The King Shoots the Messenger Again From a sofa in London we watch Washington rediscover the oldest trick in politics: sack the courier, keep the crisis WASHINGTON — For most of human history, rulers confronted bad news using a simple communications strategy. They killed the person who brought it. It was crude. It was violent. It was *terrible for staff retention*. Fortunately, civilisation has progressed. The modern…
Newman Arms Review: Orwell Drank Here and He Invented the Perfect Pub | The Moon Under Water – ten qualities, described in loving detail in 1946, and in the last paragraph he admits it does not exist
George Orwell Tried to Warn Us, But We Clicked “Accept All Cookies” Instead Somewhere in the great British beyond, George Orwell is staring at today’s news cycle like a man who invented the fire alarm and then watched everyone replace the batteries with Percy Pigs. He’s probably sitting there with a celestial copy of The Guardian, tutting loudly and muttering “I bloody well told you” whilst making a proper cup of tea.…
Newman Arms Review: Orwell’s Pub and a Very Disturbing Film | George Orwell put it in two novels and Michael Powell filmed a murder there. A busy little pie pub with a dark CV.
New Moon Review: Orwell’s Perfect Pub Did Not Exist | He listed ten qualities, described it in loving detail, and then admitted at the end that he had made it up
Newman Arms Review: Orwell Drank Here and He Invented the Perfect Pub | The Moon Under Water – ten qualities, described in loving detail in 1946, and in the last paragraph he admits it does not exist
Newman Arms Review: Orwell Drank Here and He Invented the Perfect Pub | The Moon Under Water – ten qualities, described in loving detail in 1946, and in the last paragraph he admits it does not exist
