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The Satan’s spoor of television is the

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Any readers anticipating an article condemning the invention of the wheel need trouble
themselves no further: this essay examines the impact of modern technology from the
reference point of the invention of television (John Logie Baird in 1926) – an invention still
seeking an application – to the third decade of the twenty-Frst century.

The Trojan horse which introduced television to the masses was the late Queen’s
coronation in 1953.

One need only need look at early television programmes featuring for example John
Articles in the Autumn Edition of the
Betjeman, Cyril Fletcher, John Freeman, Gilbert Harding and others to reTect on whether magazine out next week.  
this medium contributed constructively to Lord Reith’s aspirations to educate, inform and  
entertain. What’s My Line? with Lady Isobel Barnet was hardly likely to educate or inform. Editorial.  Two worse candidates for Prime
Minster could not be imagined.
The insidious inTuence of television was, and remains, an indispensable means of  
manipulating an under-educated, credulous, infantilised and gullible population Mark Mantel. “Putting Beauty back in her Seat.”
 
anaesthetised by soap operas.
Transgender Madness: Theodore Dalrymple
wonders why gender dysphoria attracts so much
The Satan’s spoor of television is the internet which provides easy, cheap and instant
attention as it aVects only .005% of the
communication and entertainment.  The internet is an ideal medium subliminally to foster
population.
group think; ideas no matter how outlandish and opinions no matter how manifestly  
erroneous circulate in the ether instantly, frequently going unchallenged either as to their “On the National Death.”  Myles Harris explains
veracity or their logical value. Opinions are, almost as a matter of course, presented as how the left has seized control of the merciless
facts – for example the positions adopted on climate change especially by those holding bureaucratic machine that is the NHS.
extreme views (Just Stop Oil) and are disseminated indiscriminately.  
Craig Milne: How for lack of nuclear power the
More generally technology, in the form of the mobile telephone and its variants, fosters Greens may cause you to shiver, even to die this
winter.
and maintains an obsession with constant communication. How many Fgures in public life
 
have lived to regret the indiscreet tweet; and how many of us lesser mortals wish that we
Daryl McCann: On why people smuggling matters,
had not responded to that message quite so promptly? how Australia managed to halt it, but maybe is
about to lose control of it again.
Modern technology is importunate: there is an unspoken but universal assumption that we  
all subscribe (both literally and metaphorically) to its insidious inTuence.  We are enjoined Percy Carlyle: How the Conservatives have
to use our apps to gain access to a broad range of services; and you cannot read a QR code scrapped marriage.
without a mobile telephone.  
Being the 40th Anniversary Edition of the
Whilst the convenience of modern technology plainly appeals to many, it certainly does not Salisbury Review, we publish a selection of

appeal to all especially perhaps to those who hold “Absolutely the wrong opinion about articles from going back to 1992. Here are a
few.
everything”.
Roger Scruton. “The Conservative Conscience.”
2007
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Enoch Powell on the EU. “A New Continental
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Tristan Jones. “An encounter with Kim Philby.”
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Michael Wharton. “Colonel Sibthorpe.”2002
 
Merrie Cave. “Making mock of uniforms that
guard you while you sleep.” 2016
 
Heather Ollerenshaw. “Rolling John.” 2018
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Brian Ridley FRS. “Global Warming: Beyond Belief?
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Myles Harris. “Britain’s Second Betrayal of Poland”
2017
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1 COMMENT ON THE SATAN’S SPOOR OF TELEVISION IS THE INTERNET Myles Harris is the editor of
Myles Harris
The Salisbury Review. Well
struck in years, he remembers
when hangings were
announced in received English
David Ashton 15TH NOVEMBER 2022 AT 5:38 PM
by a man wearing a bow tie on
the BBC Home Service, midwives rode bicycles,
Lady Almoners looked after the deserving poor in
Instant 24/7 gratiEcation.
hospitals and children were separated by the 11
Instant 24/7 indoctrination.
plus into sheep and goats.
See Konrad Lorenz, “Civilized Man’s Eight Deadly Sins” (1974).
Google: Internet EVects on the Brain (2022).
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Times, The British Medical
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Spectator and The Salisbury Review. He is also
contributing editor to City Journal, where he is
Dietrich Weismann Fellow. His books include Life
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Edwina Curry, Scarlett Johansson, Arthur Scargill,
Vanessa Redgrave and Elizabeth Taylor. She has
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