Comments on Scarfolk Council: The Fact Ban (1976)

Interesting to reflect that this was the start of ...

2016-01-15T00:07:26.357+00:00

Interesting to reflect that this was the start of The Fact Problem, now that the trade in illegal facts has become such a scourge. Fact users are probably doing nobody any harm, as long as they don't share the facts with others. It is the fact pushers that we need to clamp down on, especially when bulk-peddled in books with titles such as The Schoolboy's Bumper Book of Facts.

I went through this wicked truths hunting times. D...

2016-01-10T11:55:01.760+00:00

I went through this wicked truths hunting times. During the first part of the transition, the warm-up period, I've asked to my History and Good Manners teacher if practical facts could be considered as approximately-less-than-half-truths by employees trusting citizen's good-will questions about valid semi-flexible meanings in progress. I had 4 months of lab cleaning for false honesty and corrupted integrity. I think that I shouldn't make a suggestion about the use of the facts list he was talking about. I thank them for leaving me the choice, cause I didn't want to be discreetly punished with the medieval brightly painted wheel in the school playground.

That's such a good idea that the Cabinet Offic...

2016-01-07T16:53:49.111+00:00

That's such a good idea that the Cabinet Office has decided to do the same, and exempt itself from FOI requests.
Sometimes I wish life would stop imitating art :(

As Ronald Reagan famously said "Facts are stu...

2016-01-07T16:31:43.621+00:00

As Ronald Reagan famously said "Facts are stupid things"