A piece published by Elizabeth Hobson on the website of Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them), the political party of which I’m the chairman, in June 2018:

Authoritarians know that language is a critical weapon in the battle for souls. Newspeak in Nineteen Eighty-Four was less about the invention of new words than the destruction of the old, “In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words with which to express it.”

Read more at The Economist.

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