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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command… The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth’s centre.”
George Orwell, ‘1984’ (1949)
“Just because the armed forces have made do in recent times, that is no guarantee that this will always be so. Nor is peace-at-all-costs appeasement a viable approach in our newly dangerous world. In the words of Leon Trotsky: ‘You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.'”
Mark Wallace, The i Paper (2026-01-13)
“I think comedians have always decorated the truth with little lies to make you laugh. Politicians decorate a lie with little truths so that you almost believe them. So I think we’re like the photonegative of each other, though all of us need an audience and need to be liked, we share that in common.”
Katherine Ryan, The Guardian (2026-01-06)
“All this rubbish about the man behind the mask. I’ve had it again and again and again. The mask is what’s important.”
Stanley Baxter (RIP), quoted on BBC News (2025-12-12)
“Like Gremlins rampaging through a genetics laboratory, there’s some things in life you just can’t control. Dante knows it. The Brain Gremlin knows it too. Sometimes, you have to be like them: embrace the chaos, put everything you’ve got into canned food and shotguns and try not to take things too seriously.”
Simon Bland, The Guardian (2025-12-01)
