George Orwell
Total 4 Posts
Brexit Newspeak: End of free movement of people is ‘freedom’.
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Brexiters told us that Brexit meant freedom. One month on... how free do Britons actually feel now?
Reading George Orwell can help us understand Boris Johnson.
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Boris Johnson uses the kind of language that conceals meaning rather communicates it clearly and honestly.
What Orwell would have made of ‘social distancing’.
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We might need to practice some level of social distancing intermittently through 2022 to stop Covid-19 from surging anew. But what about a new word to express the pain, monotony and acute loneliness of ‘social distancing’?
Fear of the ‘other’ causes ructions in Britain and Norway.
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Certain groups of people are being dehumanised by politicians and cast as the “other” because of fear. Because of that, hate is being normalised.