{"id":46019,"date":"2023-07-25T05:21:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T19:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=46019"},"modified":"2023-07-25T05:21:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T19:21:22","slug":"coutts-bank-is-now-big-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=46019","title":{"rendered":"Coutts Bank Is Now Big Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the saddest things to observe in recent years has been the infection of British society and politics with woke nonsense and an accompanying slide into totalitarianism. During the pandemic, we saw an acceleration of the United Kingdom\u2014 cradle of the Common Law and Parliamentarian government\u2014sprint towards the nightmare dystopian reality that George Orwell warned about in his books and in a recorded statement he gave just before his death in 1950.<\/p>\n<p>Finish reading:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/petermcculloughmd.substack.com\/p\/coutts-bank-is-now-big-brother\">https:\/\/petermcculloughmd.substack.com\/p\/coutts-bank-is-now-big-brother<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the saddest things to observe in recent years has been the infection of British society and politics with woke nonsense and an accompanying slide into totalitarianism. During the pandemic, we saw an acceleration of the United Kingdom\u2014 cradle of the Common Law and Parliamentarian government\u2014sprint towards the nightmare dystopian reality that George Orwell &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=46019\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coutts Bank Is Now Big Brother&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46028,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46019\/revisions\/46028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}