Soviet Posters With An Orwellian Message
As a regular feature, starting today I’m going to post instances of totalitarian (Soviet, mostly) mis-information that corresponds with “Newspeak’…
As a regular feature, starting today I’m going to post instances of totalitarian (Soviet, mostly) mis-information that corresponds with “Newspeak’…
Continuing from my most recent post on the subject (yet again, some might say!) of Orwell’s stay in Sheffield in…
In his diary entry for 3 March 1936, George Orwell writes “In the evening was taken to a Methodist Church…
Tesco is not a supermarket, it’s a superracket. The store near Watford’s town centre has just been refurbished. According to…
My momentous first day at UEA was spoiled somewhat by getting caught speeding en-route from Hertfordshire to Norwich, and to…
There is an article in today’s Times resulting from a letter to the paper from the celebrity chefs Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall…
The lambasting of HSBC by the US Senate Sub-committee on Investigations drives yet another nail into the coffin of the…
No.1 in a series of posts on Orwell trivia. “George Orwell came into being on Thursday 8 January 1933, the…
Following some recent research associated with a current writing project, I stumbled upon a gem on the Sheffield local history…