George Orwell
In the Balkans, Let Us Remember to Forget
To remember victims of injustice is the duty of the living, is it not? Memorialising the dead seems like a moral imperative for those of us who live on. An ethical testament to being human.
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Tory revolt looms over state plans to use child spies against their parents!
Orwellian Communist-like methods in a Western country?
Language and political nonsense
In his famous essay "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell argued that the use of simple language - free of pretension, foreign words and vagueness - would improve the level of political thought. Since then, almost anyone writing on the relationship between language and politics has referred to the 1946 essay, whether agreeing or disagreeing with it.
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1984 | Athens | September 14
The Chytirio Theater in the downtown Athens district of Kerameikos is hosting a free screening of Michael Radford's "1984," based on George Orwell's classic novel about a dystopian future under an oppressive regime and released in the same year.
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A call to Hürriyet readers
Our profession has more than one definition. Every journalist, depending on where they stand and depending on their viewpoint, adopts one of these definitions. What suits my own journalism perspective is George Orwell?s definition: ?Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.?
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