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Tag Archives: George Orwell
Fun and games
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 10 December 2013 You couldn’t make it up. The slime of state snooping into people’s private … Continue reading
Posted in Police, UK, USA
Tagged Big Brother, Edward Snowden, espionage, George Orwell, Ian McEwan, Leviathan, online gaming, state surveillance
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Big Brother is watching you
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. Paris, 21 October 2013 The big news here today is the revelation in the newspaper Le … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, France, UK, USA
Tagged Antigone, Big Brother, Edward Snowden, George Orwell, Lord Palmerston, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Sophocles
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“Sod off, you stupid prat!”
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 17 March 2013 A VICTORY FOR FREE SPEECH On 23 February 2008 at the annual agricultural … Continue reading
Posted in France, Justice
Tagged Animal Farm, Casse-toi pov'con, George Orwell, Helvétius, Hervé Eon, Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy, Voltaire
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A hard rain’s gonna fall
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 10 December 2012 If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on … Continue reading
Big Brother
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Posted in Art, Switzerland
Tagged 1984, Art Basel, Big Brother, George Orwell, Max Ernst, Peggy Guggenheim, Sophocles
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Socialism
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 17 April 2012 “Socialism is such elementary common sense that I am sometimes amazed that it … Continue reading
War is peace
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