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‘Mid toil and tribulation…’
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‘Mid toil and tribulation…’

In CS Lewis’ novel, The Magician’s Nephew, there is a description of a dying world towards the start of the book.

It is a land – Charn – which was once a great civilisation, but now is dead. As events unfold for the two children in the story, Polly and Digory, a terrible, tolling bell starts to chime, sounding over and over again, until ‘the air… was throbbing with it and they could feel the stone floor trembling under their feet…’ and the building around them begins to collapse.

Fox News and its lies: closer to home than we might think

Fox News and its lies: closer to home than we might think

Stephen Kneale
Stephen Kneale
Date posted: 1 Jun 2023

Fox News has reached a US$787.5m settlement with the voting equipment company Dominion.

The case concerned a dispute over whether the network and its parent company knowingly broadcast false claims that Dominion sought to swing the 2020 American presidential election. Dominion accused Fox of airing claims that their machines were involved in a plot to steal the election away from Donald Trump, alleging that the network knew such claims were false but aired them anyway because they feared losing viewers to rival networks.

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