New Memoryhole story : Reinventing Big Brother [8 June,2003] A couple of days ago a new story has been added to the Memoryhole. Read more

1984 opera [4 May,2005] On May the 3rd the opera adaption of George Orwell's 1984 received its premiere in the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden) in London. Read more

"I saw the vision that he was seeing. And it wasn’t at all the kind of vision that can be talked about. What he’s saying is merely that Hitler’s after us and we must all get together and have a good hate. Doesn’t go into details. Leaves it all respectable. But what he is seeing is something quite different. It’s a picture of himself smashing people’s faces in with a spanner.", George Orwell, Coming up for Air

Reinventing Big Brother
A short story examining the proposition that the telescreens in 1984 would be impractical because the govenment would be responsible for their manufacture and maintenance - the assumption being most would be broken most of the time! Maybe not...
Orwell offered writer's blacklist to Anti-Soviet propaganda unit
An article from 'The London Guardian' suggesting that Orwell was denunciating 'crypto-communists' and 'fellow-travellers' at a Soviet prpaganda unit.
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Reinventing Big Brother by John Bromfield (jbromfield_54@msn.com) (Sunday, 1 June,2003)
A short story examining the proposition that the telescreens in 1984 would be impractical because the govenment would be responsible for their manufacture and maintenance - the assumption being most would be broken most of the time! Maybe not...
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Orwell offered writer's blacklist to Anti-Soviet propaganda unit by Maros Kollar (Monday, 21 April,2003)
An article from 'The London Guardian' suggesting that Orwell was denunciating 'crypto-communists' and 'fellow-travellers' at a Soviet prpaganda unit.
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