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After New Labour, Noah Labour?

Floods as God's punishment and the Newspeak of 'Smokefree': read Mick Hume's columns in The Times (London).

Mick Hume

Mick Hume
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Friday, 29 June 2007:

‘Last summer we were told not to flush the loo, because of global warming. This summer we are told half of Yorkshire has been flushed down the pan – because of global warming. If the drought don’t get you, it seems, the deluge will…’

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Wednesday, 27 June 2007:

‘Now I know that the word Orwellian is always whored by scaremongers, and I don’t wish to imply that smoking is to be stubbed out by jackboot (even if the Nazis did pioneer the war on tobacco). But seriously, smokefree could have come straight out of Big Brother’s Newspeak dictionary….’

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