When I was a kid kicking a ball around on the backstreets of Queen Victoria Road, some of the policies and actions of the current Government would have been viewed as communism! Now we have a Conservative Government that is centrist to left wing. Meanwhile, Governments, the WHO et al move us in a direction where we are supposed to be grateful to them for allowing us basic freedoms - provided that we toe the line.

One day, they hope, we will all say “We love Big Brother”.

That same kid grew up learning that books like 1984 were dystopian. Now they are a reflection of life as we now know it. Meanwhile the powers that be try to convince us that Liebnitz was correct - that all is best in the best of all possible worlds. They does this through the mind police and the woke attitudes that we must all accept.

Thank God for people like Ricky Gervais who speak out against it all.