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The Yellow Kid

by amitlzkpa on 8/20/20, 8:57 AM with 1 comments

  • by 082349872349872 on 8/20/20, 1:19 PM

    For anyone who doubts that Huxley was satirising the 1930's in Brave New World, consider his list of newspapers:

    "In the basement and on the low floors were the presses and offices of the three great London newspapers–The Hourly Radio, an upper-caste sheet, the pale green Gamma Gazette, and, on khaki paper and in words exclusively of one syllable, The Delta Mirror."

    Ignoring "chav check" (is that even still a thing?), we don't yet have colour-coded caste outfits, but we do already have the https://www.ft.com .