16th May, 2024: Middlesex!
It’s officially Thursday!
And yes, we ended up not making a video: but playing silly games.
It’s amazing, the fun you can have on a boys’ night in.
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Apparently?
Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer, is to make a speech, today.
In which he’ll announce the party will — in the upcoming election — make six pledges on what he’ll do if Labour win.
It sounds a lot like something Tony Blair did, back in the day.
It’s something that reminded me, then, of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four: and still does, today.
At one point, the book’s main character, has to re-write a newspaper article: one that saw a leader make a ‘categorical pledge’ to not do something … only to break that pledge a few months later.
Personally … ? And as a result of reading the novel?
I can never hear the words ‘pledge’, or ‘categorical pledge’, from the mouth of a politician … without thinking the pledge will be broken, or ignored, the minute the politician get’s into office.
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