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George Orwell began blogging on August 9, 2008, 58 years after his death. See for yourself! Visit George’s Wordpress site at http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/.
The foundation for The Orwell Prize (Great Britain’s highly regarded prize for political writing) will post each entry from Orwell’s diaries 70 years, to the day, after it was written. (The August 9th [...]

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George Orwell wrote this essay about “Modern English” in 1946.
Here’s his take on how awful Modern English has become. (This is a parody of a well-known verse from Ecclesiastes.)

Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that [...]

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