1984 has arrived

I recently returned to the UK after living in Switzerland for the last ten years.

At my Parents house, they were discussing the speed drivers come through their little village.

Apparently, rural communities have appointed " Speed Controllers", who are locals issued with radar guns to monitor traffic speeds.

I'm all for safety, but not for the empowerment of my neighbour to stop me and caution me without them being an official law enforcement agent.

" Inform on your neighbour ".

Then I noticed the destruction of the language with the alarming use of text speak, ( sorry, txt speak ).

Do you remeber newspeak ? The objective being to simplify, and finally eradicate language.

Absurd political correctness - thought crime ?

CCTV and the wild statistics of being caught on camera every two minutes in large towns and cities. - Big Brother IS watching you.

Hell, even a TV show called Big Brother,where the majority of viewers don't understand the reference and accept it as a phrase relating to entertainment.

It all seems a bit fuckin' Orwellian to me. If you have the time, read the book again and see how chillingly some of Orwell's ideas paralell the state of the world today.

To plagarise Tom Yhorke from Radiohead - " I might sound fucking paranoid, buts that because They really are out to get me."