Seventy five years ago George Orwell, in my view the greatest political thinker of the 20th Century, wrote the novel 1984. This was one of the most prescient books ever written, eclipsing most science fiction stories, in that it is so true to the age in which we now live, while, as a horror story it puts fantasies such as Dracula in the shade. Not only did Orwell predict the Thought Police, the two minute hates, and Newspeak, but he foresaw the mutability of the past becoming the means to suppress truth.

The novel contains the following paragraph, which anyone not in thrall to the woke will recognize as being a clear description of what is taking place right now, in our universities, our streets, and in public discourse "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." Of course the fall of Communism means that it is no longer the Party, but the new puritans of the liberal left who are to be treated as always right. These people are well aware of Orwell's dictum "And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed, if all records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

When we see the statements in the novel that "The Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." who can doubt that this is the philosophy behind the assertions made by the woke that a man is a woman if he says he is, regardless of the truth. We must reject these deranged lunatics, and demand that objective truth is how things must be judged, not the insane claims of these modern witch-finders. If we do not then we face a reality, encapsulated by the novel's main character, Winston Smith, at the beginning of 1984 "To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man - greetings!". The Ministry of Truth is awaiting its moment to be born.