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1 Oct 2016, 4:53 pm
Decline of the English Sex Scandal: why you can never get a good sex scandal these days (with apologies to George Orwell) – Charlotte Harris News: Melania Trump’s US Libel Action against MailOnline, what are its prospects of success? [read post]
20 Oct 2008, 8:25 am
Pogo feels moved to quote George Orwell:"Only an intellectual could say something so stupid. [read post]
12 Jul 2016, 6:59 am
This year, the trial was based on George Orwell’s 1984. [read post]
6 Oct 2013, 6:13 am
As Martin Moore suggests in his piece on “George Orwell, The Daily Mail and Who Really Hates England” the way to deal with this kind of unacceptable content is not to ban it but to refuse to take the newspaper which makes it seriously. [read post]
2 Sep 2014, 11:20 am
George Orwell. [read post]
20 Sep 2011, 8:56 pm
Or that future projections of many a science-fiction work (such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eigthy-Four which he wrote in 1949) is a kind of critique of contemporary society? [read post]
27 Jul 2007, 10:33 am
Predictably, two men in the sack struck him as irksome, though is wife apparently does not object.Technology cuts both ways: the radio, George Orwell reminds us, did nothing to help democracy and everything to build the bunkers of totalitarian states. [read post]
23 Apr 2007, 1:10 am
[Counsel] stated: 'George Orwell's fertile imagination could not supply a clearer distortion of the plain meaning of language to reach such an absurd result.' [Counsel] argued in the petition that this Court's opinion 'demonstrates so graphically the absence of logic and common sense.' [Counsel] wrote in boldface type that 'Ryan Taboada may be the unfortunate victim of a crazed criminal assailant who emerged from the dark to attack him. [read post]
24 Feb 2010, 7:44 am
”— George Orwell, “1984” Privacy issues are taking center stage as we enter an increasingly connected world.Our online activities are carefully monitored and meticulously tracked by some of the biggest players, including Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook. [read post]
13 May 2014, 11:33 am
But as long as North Korea still has a regime that is a real-life version of George Orwell’s 1984, Cuba will not be the last commmunist state, or even the most repressive. [read post]
11 Jul 2021, 2:16 pm
And then there was another one of Spotify’s artist and label relations debacles with Epidemic Sound–Spotify’s answer to George Orwell’s “versificator” in the Music Department that produced “countless similar songs published for the benefit of the proles by a sub-section of the Music Department. [read post]
13 Nov 2006, 10:58 pm
Or, maybe, he was - and we need to keep in mind the opening line of George Orwell's essay on Gandhi: "Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent". [read post]
12 Dec 2011, 5:43 pm
That part of my scholarship that focuses on Russian law sometimes makes it hard for me to avoid thinking about the original model for Big Brother that George Orwell had in mind when I read about the latest anxieties about the state’s relationship to cyberspace. [read post]
9 Jul 2012, 12:02 pm
There are a good number of quotes from this opinion worth remembering; the majority opinion even gives a nod to George Orwell: “Permitting the government to decree this speech to be a criminal offense, whether shouted from the rooftops or made in a barely audible whisper, would endorse government authority to compile a list of subjects about which false statements are punishable. [read post]
13 Apr 2019, 4:19 pm
Amazon hit the headlines way back in 2009 for remotely erasing “illegally uploaded” copies of George Orwell’s 1984 from consumers’ Kindle e-reading devices, much to consumers’ dismay and anger. [read post]
17 Aug 2004, 12:05 pm
" Moreover, although legislation is entitled to a presumption of constitutionality, the answer to the constitutional question does not depend on whether Congress - in the year of George Orwell's prophesy - approved a difficult-to-dismantle regime of push-button sentences determined by bureaucrats and administered by prosecutors, probation officers, and judges rather than jurors. [read post]
11 Nov 2011, 2:29 pm
I’m sitting here telling you that the way I see it, George Orwell’s 1984 isn’t that far off. [read post]
14 Oct 2008, 5:55 pm
" Palin's response is the kind of political "big lie" that George Orwell warned against. [read post]
13 Feb 2010, 3:27 am
Where are the anti-Utopian movie makes, the Aldous Huxleys and George Orwells of this generation. [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 3:09 am
Keynes, and indeed George Orwell, pointed out at the time, the "Blimps" got it right about Hitler; or at least they were more reliable on that rather important subject than some of the intellectuals. [read post]
