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Much has been written about George Orwell and Barnhill and the Isle of Jura and Nineteen Eighty Four and plenty of it, I am afraid, is the most awful rot. Almost all of it is coloured by one

    Donald Trump: “You have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order. We have to respect our great people in law and order. We don’t want anybody hurt.” Twitter: You’re inciting people so we’ve locked your account until you delete this tweet. Dan Bongino: Fine, I’ll post what the president said about peace said on my own account. Twitter: You’re locked, too. Bongino: “The communists at Twitter locked my account for posting a statement by the Preside...

Reading Harry Potter (and the Deathly Hallows) in a new light during the coronavirus pandemic ‘For a lot of people looking back on this story, it screams 2020 – it has everything but the surgical masks.’ Jan 07, 2021 · 05:30 pm Fantastic Beasts spin-off franchise. Of course, this hasn’t been the best year for a lot of things as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent isolation protocols. It is curious, then, that this beleaguered franchise – so dear to the hearts of a ...

New survey reveals Australians are holding back their opinions because of cancel culture. Opinion by Kevin Donnelly Premium Content Subscriber only Freedom of speech is yet another victim of cancel culture, based on the results of a survey, Australians Together, carried out by Mark McCrindle and Mainstream Insights. Instead of everyone having the right to express an opinion and engage in the battle of ideas, politically correct intimidation and groupthink ...

This is the last column of the year from the arts community in the Flin Flon area. Usually, it would be a celebration of all the amazing stuff our arts and culture groups have accomplished over the past year. This year was a little different. We couldn’t have a Community Choir show like Le Grand Opera or Nineteen Eighty-Four or The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. We couldn’t have the Borealis Chamber Choir performing the Flin Flon version of Lessons and Carols. We couldn’t even have ...

Julieta Cervantes/DKC/O&M via AP Millions of Americans may come to resemble Winston Smith, the defeated hero of Nineteen Eighty-Four, who at last accepts the calm.Read Full Article »

Random: Epic Games Apparently Still Needs Your Help To "Free Fortnite" Fortnite from their stores for violating the terms of service. In case you forgot, Epic introduced a more direct way to pay in its battle royale game - essentially bypassing the payment system on these digital stores. Epic followed this up by launching a Nineteen Eighty-Four style #FreeFortnite campaign, to help spread the word about what had happened (it was also a parody of an old Apple Mac commercial). If this already s...

“For plugging the holes in history the pamphlet is the ideal form.” — George Orwell, ‘Pamphlet Literature’, January 9, 1943. New Statesman and Nation George Orwell regretted the surprising “badness of contemporary pamphlets”. From a survey of his own library he identified nine main trends, ranging from “anti-Left and crypto-Fascist” to “lunatic”, and described them as “practically all trash, interesting only to bibliographies”. This was surprising as “the pamphlet o...

Publishing date: Dec 18, 2020  •  December 18, 2020  •  5 minute read  •  Article content One of my first-ever Christmas memories took place back when I was a Kindergarten student in Mrs. Webster’s class at Victoria School. It involved a gingerbread house. At some point during December 1979, my Danish grandmother decided (at my urging if we’re being completely honest) to labour and sweat and toil in the kitchen in order to make me a gingerbread house so I could bring to school...

People swap food bank vouchers for drugs, and other bullshit idiots believe 18th December 2020 BRITONS will believe any old shite that fits their prejudices. Watch out for these examples of spurious bollocks: People sell food bank vouchers for drugs The country is facing the biggest economic and social crisis since the Second World War, with thousands of families left struggling to survive day-to-day. But a taxi driver told your neighbours’ auntie that he once took somebody to...