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… more →
The Third ProvinceFree to think, free to believe... wrote 2 months ago: I wrote about how the novel 1984 was Orwell’s view of how the UK was functioning in 1948 here … more →
Free to think, free to believe... wrote 2 months ago: Not only is this the title for a rather entertaining yarn by Mike Resnick it is a direct reference t … more →
Free to think, free to believe... wrote 3 months ago: yes it’s that book by George Orwell… My rather plush copy came with a forward by Robert … more →
Free to think, free to believe... wrote 4 months ago: Just by a strange coincidence at the same time I was mostly through that tedious but famous read Fra … more →
Free to think, free to believe... wrote 10 months ago: I have just finished Penguin’s deceptively thin volume of George Orwell’s Essays. For fo … more →
Free to think, free to believe... wrote 11 months ago: Not that I’m trying to sound provocative to feminists [or others]… But I’ve just f … more →
Free to think, free to believe... wrote 1 year ago: The third and last part of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists of Radio 4’s Classic Serial ha … more →
Free to think, free to believe... wrote 1 year ago: for him, just as she destroyed almost everything else in his life: ’she begs us to love her … more →
Free to think, free to believe... wrote 1 year ago: to ‘reform’ the public perception of the ‘armed services’ over here in the U … more →