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Anybody else been watching? They’ve been airing the archived coverage of the 1959 General Election all this evening. Fascinating if you’re interested in politics or history.
If you have a half hour to spare listen to this. The first four minutes or so is just the preamble before he hits his stride, it’s a tour-de-majeste of public speaking.
Youngsters who are used to seeing Johnson and Corbyn’s halting, spluttering displays across the despatch box have no idea of how things used to be, how precipitous the decline.
I was having a bit of a sort through in the box room yesterday and picked up an old copy of Dialogue With Death. I sat down and leafed through the first dozen pages. Hooked, I went downstairs, put the kettle on, and read the whole thing through again to the end.
Brilliant. It’s still in print and available through your local library.
Lord God! Can somebody explain what on Earth is the point of this? The same tired old gang ‘talking heads’ stumbling over semantics in lieu of ideas.
The banal functionaries of a failed system that can barely muster the enthusiasm to even attempt to dance with any sort of conviction for a public that no longer looks their way.
Her impact is extraordinary. There’s never been anything like it even if the scramble by politicians to be associated with her does leave a taste of sick in the back of my throat.
I came across this now just and it made me laugh out loud. They’ll be engaged to Subalterns in the Grenadiers this time next year so I’d imagine the foray into politics will be a short one.
The Diana Spencer look is back in vogue I see...
The political establishment, which is rotten to the core, has consistently betrayed us. Their 'leaders' change, but the agenda remains the same. The Brexit Party is the only party that will ensure we leave the EU on WTO terms. #VOTEBrexitPartyforBREXIT@BeatriceGrant_pic.twitter.com/CUbpEqKivf
I romped through this in a day and can’t recommend it highly enough.
“The Ministry of Truth is the best book I have read in a long time. Fizzing with ideas yet superbly readable, it takes us though Orwell’s life and the development of twentieth-century utopias and dystopias, to the long afterlife of Orwell’s greatest work, read and misread during the Cold War as simple anti-communist propaganda, then in the 1980s as a failed prophecy, before finally and frighteningly showing it as a warning for our own age. When today 1984 is scrubbed from the internet in China, Russia weaponises lies on social media, and in the West a Trump adviser talks of “alternative facts” on his Inauguration Day, Lynskey's book is both a warning and an exhortation for us all to be stubborn as Orwell was with facts, and like Winston Smith to cling to the belief that 2+2=4.” C J Sansom.
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