I think I really need to direct you all here today. Ian Hislop gave the George Orwell lecture this year. We usually see Hislop as a great satirist, but when he is not trying to be funny he often has some very, very astute things to say. Thus this is well worth a watch. As worried as we all are about the way things are going, the state of the press and about how angry everyone is currently getting, Hislop manages to give everything a little more context. Go watch.