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Writings by George Orwell.
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James Wood on Orwell's A Hanging
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In James Wood's How Fiction Works there is a chapter called 'Detail'. He mention's the puddle/condemned man bit from 'A Hanging' 'The avoidance of the puddle would be precisely the kind of superb detail that Tolstoy, say, might flourish; War and Peace has an execution scene very close in spirit to the Orwell essay and it may... more »
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The Inevitable Results of Cosmopolitan Pluralists Making Law II
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***Another free update on the pigsty the Left have made of Britain*** This one may just prick the conscience of certain bien-pensantistas here, cos a woman is raped. OXFORD Street murder victim Steven Bigby was on bail over the brutal gang rape of a girl when he died, The Sun can reveal. He was also on bail for a SECOND attack in which a man was repeatedly... more »
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What I learned from 1984
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Political power is based on emotions. Emotions are the strings what move the puppets. The emotions move the world and the incorrect emotions are moving it in the wrong way, toward the self-destruction. What is wrong in the world and how to begin to fix it. (160 kb, 16 pgs, ~ 45 min) [link]... more »
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Burmese Visa delays barring relief workers
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I'm going to make a prediction now: the Burmese government's failure to speed paperwork for relief workers is going to have the same effect the Katrina fuckups did in the U.S.: it will show up the bankruptcy of a police-minded government that isn't interested in public services. It will create a focus for indignation that makes it possible to change... more »
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BYE BYE, KEN!
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Those who quietly accepted all Ken's MANY faults, fuck ups, lies and arrogance will now, when the Guardian tells them to, get FURIOUSLY RIGHTEOUS about all the street issues they were so complacent about when Ken was in charge. We are in for a long season of extroardinarily hypocritical behaviour from the middle class wanky left, extraordinary... more »
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I think it was Martha A Bridegam who said...
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...that America has made so much progress in race relations compared with rotten little Britain. 'On Sunday Mr Wright had spoken in front of a 10,000-strong NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ) audience in Detroit where he also proclaimed a message that there were only... more »
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Clockwork Orange England V: Sophie Lancaster
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'Two teenagers were jailed for life today for murdering a young woman in a park because she was dressed as a Goth. Sophie Lancaster, 20, was kicked and stamped to death as she begged the pair to stop beating her boyfriend in Bacup, Lancashire, last August. She stepped in to protect him, but while cradling his head in her lap,... more »
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BBC CLXXX: Nobody Must Question The Agenda
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A Christian party has begun legal action after the corporation insisted on changes to a short film in which the party voiced opposition to the building of Europe’s biggest mosque next to the site of the 2012 Olympics [link]
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The Inevitable Consequences of Cosmopolitan Pluralists making Law
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'The criminal justice system has been castigated for its sloppy and “nonchalant” approach, which contributed to the fatal stabbing of an innocent man on a London bus by a criminal on bail. A report into the death of Richard Whelan, 28, on a bus after he tried to stop Anthony Joseph throwing chips at his girlfriend has blamed a... more »
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