The use and misuse of George Orwell’s truth-telling is so widespread that we can easily miss his intended meaning. For example, with perfect (Orwellian) irony, the BBC has a statue of Orwell outside Broadcasting House, bearing the inscription: ‘If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.’ Fine words, →
‘A Perpetual Motion Machine Of Killing’:
Alleged Cover-Up Of Civilians Murdered By UK Special Forces In Iraq And Afghanistan
On August 1, a rare in-depth investigative piece appeared on the BBC News website based on credible and serious allegations that UK Special Forces had executed unarmed civilians in Afghanistan. The BBC article was produced →
Racism, Sexism, Classism – The Necessary Incoherence Of ‘Mainstream’ Ethical Debate
What does it mean when journalists who spent the last two decades promoting wars of aggression on brown- and black-skinned people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen take a knee? The Observer commented: ‘There →
Conspiracy Theories Malign And Benign – Face Masks And Israeli Training Of US Police
Frightening numbers of people still believe that profit-maximising corporate media merely disseminate something called ‘news’. In reality, ‘mainstream’ ‘news’ is chock full of Pavlovian bells, trigger terms designed to shape and control public opinion. When →
‘Six Months To Avert Climate Crisis’:
Climate Breakdown And The Corporate Media
In his classic science fiction novel, ‘Foundation’, Isaac Asimov posited a future in which ‘psychohistorians’ could predict outcomes based on past history and the large-scale behaviour of human populations by combining psychology and the mathematics →



