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Democracy from timsuzi Pro 123 days old
[ ... ] As an avid reader of George Orwell I had come across the great man's denunciation of this rancid totaltarian tosh before when it had been ...
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OK Two Thoughts for the Day from timsuzi Pro 752 days old
"There are some ideas so stupid that only an intellectual can believe in it." George Orwell. This thought regularly crosses my mind when various talking ...
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Thought for the Day from timsuzi Pro 797 days old
[ ... ] happeneth to them all. George Orwell in one of his greatest essays wrote a pastiche of this to show how degraded the English language had become ...
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Was it a year ago today? from timsuzi Pro 908 days old
[ ... ] I was 'Orwell's Wasp'. George Orwell once described a wasp that had had its abdomen cut off, it was still alive and gulping down syrup, but the ...
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'How to Bore and be Bored' from timsuzi Pro 940 days old
I was not a great reader of Private Eye but one of my favourite feaures in that magazine was the one that printed misprints from newspapers and one of ...
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Power + Prejudice = ? from timsuzi Pro 1193 days old
It is the Autumn Term of 1984. I have just started teaching this year and am struggling desperately with many of my classes. This afternoon, however, ...
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Masculinity - again from timsuzi Pro 1320 days old
I read an article in The Guardian recently that shows why men who are broadly sympathetic to the ideals of feminism can be hacked off by it in practicality. The ...
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What would Orwell really think now? from timsuzi Pro 1325 days old
There have been a number of postings that I have read recently where people have tried to predict what George Orwell would have made of the likes of ...
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Two Great Quotations (This time by George Orwell) from timsuzi Pro 1357 days old
I've been rereading Orwell's essays and I found two quotations that express really well some of what I feel and try to write about on this Blog. "There ...
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