Why are the government subsidising huge corporations like Tesco with free labour when there are hundreds of small and medium sized businesses all over the country complaining they can’t take on staff?
It adds credibility to the two main charges put against the Conservative government, that they’re either grossly incompetent, or have ulterior motives because they’re in bed with big industry.
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism., question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification. Millions of peasants are robbed of their farms and sent trudging along the roads with no more than they can carry: this is called transfer of population or rectification of frontiers. People are imprisoned for years without trial, or shot in the back of the neck or sent to die of scurvy in Arctic lumber camps: this is called elimination of unreliable elements. Such phraseology is needed if one wants to name things without calling up mental pictures of them. Consider for instance some comfortable English professor defending Russian totalitarianism. He cannot say outright, “I believe in killing off your opponents when you can get good results by doing so.” Probably, therefore, he will say something like this:
“While freely conceding that the Soviet regime exhibits certain features which the humanitarian may be inclined to deplore, we must, I think, agree that a certain curtailment of the right to political opposition is an unavoidable concomitant of transitional periods, and that the rigors which the Russian people have been called upon to undergo have been amply justified in the sphere of concrete achievement.”
George Orwell in 1946
RT @fluidcreativity: 1) Put on headphones 2) Turn up volume 3) Click my link. 4) Watch full screen. 5) RT link. http://vimeo.com/6678222
Anyone noticed an increased level of spam on twitter recently?
Twitter is turning into a tidal wave of spam. What is twitter’s strategy to stop it?
Has tea AND Flapjack. I’m sorry to update with such a nothing, but alas, tea AND flapjack is pretty good?
RT @skinnipopcorn: Like Twilight? New iPhone app: Twilight tracker http://ow.ly/qszI @nuttymadam Time to get an iPhone? And a job?
RT @Stevejuice: “Twitter valued at $1bn despite lack of revenue” It’s amazing to me that they have nothing. No real scalable money plan.
For a while I thought Remember the Milk could serve some purpose in organising my life. It can’t. Google Tasks can though.
