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Flat White

Welcome to the Age of the Goldfish

14 January 2021

5:00 AM

14 January 2021

5:00 AM

I hope you all have a good memory, because you are going to need it. 

Modern political events are being re-written in real-time – dare we say it – ‘whitewashed’ by the unanimous vote of the unelected press. What began as a plague of anonymous fact-checkers attempting to elevate their preferred politics, has metastasised into a truth manufacturing line with the same quality control as a Wuhan mask factory. 

There is a danger that the only faithful record of our era will be the one decaying inside our memories.

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