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This realisation that major parts of recent political events could quickly be forgotten or indeed totally ignored if they did not fit the script helped encourage me to always seek multiple sources for a given story or situation, and compelled me to always distrust or at least question what I was being told and why I was being told it.
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Surprising how often the rubbish put out by political parties and red tops at the time becomes the official history of the period. It's hard to distinguish between the Cpnservative's 1979 election lie…
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Yes, and what surprises me is how easy it is to educate yourself by picking up a few books on history or economics (and the book I've just started - Trade Wars are Class Wars is a great example; one o…
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