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

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors", Plato,

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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