Those who control Hungary’s past control its future! Those who control its present, control its past!

Preface – Nineteen Eighty-Four & the ‘House of Terror’: On my second visit to Hungary in July 1989, I visited Lake Balaton with my then fiancée (now my wife of thirty-six years) and a Catholic priest. He asked me if I had read George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. I replied that I had first read itContinue reading “Those who control Hungary’s past control its future! Those who control its present, control its past!”

Tony Blair, the ‘Beeb’ & the ‘Blob’: The BBC & the Iraq War – Twenty Years Ago; Invasion & Insurgency, 2002-2005.

The Business of Informing & Educating: In 2007, the BBC’s World Affairs Editor, John Simpson wrote the following about the nature of the British Broadcasting Corporation, at a time of great controversy about its role among politicians, this time of the ‘New’ Labour variety. He called for what he called a return to ‘Reithianism’, aContinue reading “Tony Blair, the ‘Beeb’ & the ‘Blob’: The BBC & the Iraq War – Twenty Years Ago; Invasion & Insurgency, 2002-2005.”