Sixty-Five Years Since Orwell’s Death
George Orwell passed away sixty-five years ago today. He died alone in his room on the fourth floor of UCLH’s…
George Orwell passed away sixty-five years ago today. He died alone in his room on the fourth floor of UCLH’s…
My ‘Photoshopped’ version of the well-known photograph of Orwell, with his Remington replaced by an Apple. I’m completely misguided, of…
As a follow-on from my previous post on the subject of Orwell’s ‘blog’, I decided to post George’s brilliant As…
I have been reading Orwell’s As I Please columns from when he was at The Tribune in the early 1940s….
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…
I did it… I graduated! A BA in English Literature with Creative Writing. And then I spent the summer working…
Tesco is not a supermarket, it’s a superracket. The store near Watford’s town centre has just been refurbished. According to…
I have finally accepted that there’s no chance of me getting a job with only six weeks of the summer…
My momentous first day at UEA was spoiled somewhat by getting caught speeding en-route from Hertfordshire to Norwich, and to…