Madrigal

Betcha Wakefield ends up involved somehow.

Yea the whole thing smells like a stitch-up. Cops couldn't afford to look incompetent or let their massive manhunt drag on too long, so they did their usual thing and picked a vaguely plausible target and build a narrative to pin it on them.

Yes. Orwell favoured democratic socialism himself.

The book attacked authoritarian socialism (“IngSoc” being a bit of a clue) to some degree but it didn’t really focus on the socialist elements - it was all about methods of control, which could be employed under any economic system.

Animal Farm was a much more direct attack on Stalinism.

It’s on its way back. They’ve reverted to “negro” already.

There will be peace in our time, eh?

I mean, you could employ them siege weapons. If you have enough of them. An an imagination.

Typo. Perhaps they meant a warm onager.

Presumably, if he lands in any country that actually respects international law (which is a fair few) he will be arrested.

It’ll severely limit his ability to travel internationally. Plus sometimes it’s just about making a statement.

Modern capitalism in a nutshell. Establish a monopoly through any means, then exploit the hell out of that monopoly to become richer and more powerful.

We should totally start calling it the trans-gulf.

And the log files show the system switched to manual control precisely 3ms before the explosion, every time.