I wrote about how the novel 1984 was Orwell’s view of how the UK was functioning in 1948 here and argued that he may have been right…
I recently read Anna Minton’s Ground Control and found that all the debates and protests about whether we are living with ‘Big Brother’ are now redundant. Most folk agree [...]
Archive for September, 2009
1984 has been superseded by Reality
Posted in Britain Today, Provoked by Pulp, outlook, philosophy, politics on Saturday, 12 September, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Stalking the Unicorn
Posted in Provoked by Pulp, atheism, dogma, faith, outlook, philosophy on Sunday, 6 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not only is this the title for a rather entertaining yarn by Mike Resnick it is a direct reference to one of the CampQuest’s activities, well at least as part of the UK’s camp experience…
The idea is that the leaders talk about unicorns that live in the nearby forest and there’s a prize to be [...]
