of their own nationality. In Left-wing circles it is always felt that there is
something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a
duty to snigger at every English institution" - George Orwell
Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by
chance they are later proved right - Arabian proverb
When government doesn't agree with the people,
it's time to change the people - Bertolt Brecht
The best way to take control over a people and control them
utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode
rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible
reductions. In this way the people will not see those rights
and freedoms being removed until past the point at which
these changes cannot be reversed - Adolf Hitler
About a year ago we thought it would be fun to make a list of all the things you used to be able to do, and now can't. We got up to a hundred different things very quickly, but strangely as we started on the next hundred, it wasn't such fun any more.
Still, the second hundred was remarkably easy, and the third hundred went very smoothly once we started searching the internet for all the things you couldn't do in case they gave you cancer - not the obvious things like smoking fifty a day or taking your summer holiday in Chernobyl, but things like breast-feeding, or taking a train, or wearing contact lenses (actually, we made that one up. Or DID we ….?)
The list is now up to FIVE HUNDRED things we used to be able to do, and now can't. And more turn up every day in the newspapers - so many that we can't be arsed to write them down any more. It's no wonder we're all so depressed.
Anyway, we've made the list now, so we suppose you'd better read it. Just make sure you've taken your blood-pressure pills first, though, before you …
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