The full 1984ing of Great Britain is moving from the abstract and obvious to the blunt force and obvious: Anyone watching?

1. First, please understand the contents of this Tweet. Don’t skim this one. Think it through.

?? The Ministry of Justice has ordered the deletion of the UK’s largest court reporting archive.

Courtsdesk, a platform launched to improve media access to magistrates’ court data has been ordered to delete its archive of records by David Lammy’s Ministry of Justice.

According to Courtsdesk, the platform has since been used by more than 1,500 journalists from 39 media organisations and the data provided has highlighted serious failures in the courts system.

It said journalists were given no advance notice of 1.6 million criminal hearings, the number of court cases listed was accurate on just 4.2 per cent of sitting days and half a million weekend cases were heard with no notification to the press.

In November, HM Courts and Tribunal Service issued the company a cessation notice, citing what it called “unauthorised sharing” of court data, on the basis of a test feature, claiming this was a “data protection issue.”

Enda Leahy, the Courtsdesk chief executive said: “We built the only system that could tell journalists what was actually happening in the criminal courts.

We wrote 16 times asking for dialogue. Last week we got our answer: delete everything. If the government were interested in open justice, they would engage in a dialogue.”

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So what does this mean? Well, it’s self explanatory. But is it equal across the board? Of course not. Dialectical societies use information like a shape charge. It destroys whatever the target du jour is.

2. This goes a long way to explaining it.

3. Winston Smith’s job description at the Ministry of Truth, or MINITRU as they preferred to be called, according to Chat GPT

“There is a German proverb: ‘Mut verloren — alles verloren’ (When courage is lost, all is lost). There is also a Latin saying: the loss of reason is the true harbinger of destruction. What happens to a society when both these losses — the loss of courage and the loss of reason — intersect? This is the picture which I have found the West presents today.”

From Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard commencement address, titled:

“A World Split Apart.”