Monday 6 May 2024

Memory Holes. (From “1984”)

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I thought it was only China that did “memory holing” — of the Cultural Revolution, of Tiananmen June 4th…. 

But, no, it’s the west too. A whole political and media class have already forgotten how authoritarian they were during Covid. Horrid examples abound in Victoria, Australia, the United States and, as Brendan O’Neill says in his brilliant speech, in the U.K.