Completely from left field ( uh, right field…) and out of the blue skies in David Cameron’s air-brushed head, Oceania is now at war with Eastasia. I’ve walked fresh from my shortlist triumph at last night’s Orwell Prize event and into life as the Conservatives would have it — a posh boy’s fantasy about plucky […]
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Even Mother Nature hates them. Today’s spectacular eruption in Iceland has sent giant plumes of ash headed for Old Blighty, shutting down airports and preventing the three main parties hitting Scotland for the general election campaign. Those Scots must have some powerful mojo. Respek! The Guardian reports: After the severe winter weather and the BA
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Yesterday’s first ever UK Chinese hustings, featuring five of the eight Chinese parliamentary candidates running in the general election and attended by an almost entirely Chinese audience, was an interesting if disappointing affair. Organised by bbcchina.com and bbcchinese.com, this was a much-needed initiative considering that Chinese are the third-biggest minority in the UK, but you
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Sometimes a thing is true even if George Orwell says it’s true. Old grudges die hard; Stalinists still hate George (not Galloway) while ‘decents’ claim him for their own. My fellow blogging longlister in the Orwell Prize, Dave Osler, has posted a defence of Gorgeous. And I guess that’s my cue to do likewise with
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May I just say, “Blimey!”? I’ve just heard from the organisers of The Orwell Prize that I’ve made the longlist in the Blog category. “They are awarded to the book, the journalism and the blogposts which are judged to have best achieved George Orwell’s aim to ‘make political writing into an art’.” When I submitted
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What more to add to Johann Hari’s piece on the Tory donor, billionaire “Lord” Michael Ashcroft and his refusal to pay British taxes? David Cameron and William Hague have covered up for him despite his “clear and unequivocal assurance” he would become a “permanent” resident in Britain ten years ago. Because of their obfuscation he
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