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9 Aug 2007, 9:17 am
Book Review: Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell. [read post]
7 Aug 2007, 3:00 am
(With any luck, zombie George Orwell will have a few more stops to make after that.) [read post]
1 Aug 2007, 6:00 pm
By George Orwell. [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 Jul 2007, 1:04 pm
George Orwell made it clear that the Party was not interested in creating a new society or propagating a new ideology. [read post]
30 Jun 2007, 4:29 pm
Fischer examines George Orwell's famous essay, Politics and the English Language, traces its influence on the plain-language movement, andâ€â [read post]
28 Jun 2007, 5:15 am
As George Orwell might have noted, however, some of the provisions are more equal than others. [read post]
23 Jun 2007, 6:47 am
Here is the abstract.This article examines George Orwell's theories about language and applies them to contemporary legal discourse in the United States. [read post]
20 Jun 2007, 12:15 am
George Orwell does better still, with 224 references to "Orwellian. [read post]
18 Jun 2007, 7:26 pm
From State proposals to expand DNA extraction to misdemeanants, to federal DNA statutes designed to assist police in solving crimes, detractors allude to a police state reminiscent of George Orwell's dystopia portrayed in 1984. [read post]
14 Jun 2007, 1:52 pm
George Orwell had in mind politicians, not lawyers, when he coined the term doublespeak. [read post]
24 May 2007, 9:14 pm
In the travel section I came across the pseudonymous Emma Larkin's wonderful Finding George Orwell in Burma, which demonstrates the truth in the Burmese joke that Orwell wrote a Burmese trilogy, including not just Burmese Days, which is actually set there, but Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four - the latter being the most naturalistic of the three. [read post]
23 May 2007, 7:38 am
Unveiled in the north of Britain this week, it could be introduced across the country if deemed a success, fuelling an already intense debate over whether the “Big Brother” world George Orwell predicted is now truly upon us, or whether such scrutiny is merely essential for security in the modern era. [read post]
17 May 2007, 11:53 am
Even George Orwell wouldn't have conceived of this: Information captured by the towers -- including live images giving GPS locations of any intruders -- will be streamed live via satellite from command centers in Tucson and Sells to Border Patrol agents with laptops patrolling nearby. [read post]
13 May 2007, 7:18 am
Almost lost amongst all this excitement was the launching of the Ministry of Justice, sounding (as others have commented) like something out of George Orwell (I rather liked Ian Hislop's joke on Have I Got News For You that the Home Office had been split into the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Truth).I suppose as a law blogger that I should make some comment about the new department responsible for our justice system, but to be quite honest I'm not sure there is… [read post]
3 May 2007, 7:07 pm
Wikipedia notes: "In George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984 the government attempts to control not only the speech and actions, but also the thoughts of its subjects, labeling disapproved thoughts with the term thought crime []. [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]
23 Apr 2007, 12:27 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]
17 Apr 2007, 7:29 am
George Orwell seems to have been right. [read post]
16 Apr 2007, 11:35 pm
George Orwell is smiling somewhere, the skies are getting clearer every day, and no child is being left behind. [read post]
