>Just as in "1984" they had "Minitrue" (the Ministry of Truth - in effect lies) nowadays we have the MetPol for London's Metropolitan Police.
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>Incidentally, recently on a BBC telethon day, the woman who's presented the Big Brother reality show in UK since its start was asked, in a quiz, "Who is the leader of Oceania?" ... and she had no idea.

Someone up there in the show is bound to be executed... knows too much.

>Similarly many people bandy about the expression "Catch-22" without ever having read the book or really knowing what one is. That annoys me.

Just like so many people are happily uncertain about quantum physics without having ever heard of Heisenberg, or mention ¨[unspellable]'s cat without ever bothering to look whether it's alive.