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The Afghanistan "withdrawal," clarified

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 01:48:16 GMT

A leftwing view of the day's news and the way it's presented in the media I and others have already pointed out that "beginning" a withdrawal, even if it actually comes to pass, is far from a withdrawal.
Source: Left I on the News

Is there a Right space in Indian politics?

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:15:05 GMT

Sir Julian Critchley, who served as a Conservative MP through the tenure of five British Prime Ministers without achieving anything remotely memorable , once narrated an incident in what used to be the Smoking Room of the House of Commons.
Source: Times of India

The Silence of the BBC 100 - BBC Trust Chairman Responds to ‘Newspeak’

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:04:07 GMT

In August 2008, Maitlis opened Newsnight with these words about the conflict between Russia and Georgia: “Hello, good evening. The Russians are calling it ‘peace enforcement operation’.
Source: UK Indymedia Newswire

Bankers' bonuses: Time for a windfall tax

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:05:05 GMT

That is the Hester line – and, as George Orwell observed of a different argument: "One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool."
Source: Comment Is Free

RUMPOLE BIDS ADIEU

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:11:49 GMT

Billy Bunter, William Brown, Captain Haddock, Obelix, Asterix, Humphrey Appleby... the list is long of what George Orwell once called first class characters who have provided endless enjoyment without quite belonging to what is often referred to as...
Source: Calcutta Telegraph

KINGDOM HOSPITAL: A Mexican Birthday Gift

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:07:48 GMT

It could have been taken straight out of George Orwell's Animal Farm. I entered the hospital in my piggy mask, complete with snout.
Source: Times of India

My State Fair Lady; Lemons to lemonaid, malaise to marmalade: Sarah

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:23:04 GMT

Curtis Dahlgren "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."
Source: Renew America

Afghanistan

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:04:55 GMT

I can only imagine what George Orwell would make of difference between America’s response to Afghanistan’s elections, and to those in Iran. The thought brings a smile to my face. There is another discrepancy which is much more serious.
Source: Irish Times

Quoted in 'Japan's Murakami Says Metaphor More Real After 9/11'

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:53:08 GMT

Haruki Murakami said in ABC News:

First, there was George Orwell's 1984, a novel about the near future... I wanted to write something that was the opposite of that, a novel on the recent past that shows how things could have been

Quoted in 'Great Expectations for show on way to Cathedral'

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:21:40 GMT

said in Telegraph & Argus:

I have been enthralled, amused and shocked by Charles Dickens. His characters are simply wonderful, and we have over 40 of them in the show. He exposed the underbelly of England like no other English writer before him, probably not until George Orwell.

Photo from Getty Images

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:35:00 GMT

WASHINGTON - AUGUST 13: Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich delivers remarks during a course about government budgeting at the American Enterprise Institute August 13, 2009 in Washington, DC.

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Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:34:21 GMT

The ending of 1984 by George Orwell

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:42:11 GMT