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Diary Saturday 28th January 2017

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 29 Jan 17

I decided to get some shopping in and headed for a supermarket near the Preston North End football stadium, being careful to go mid-match to avoid crowded buses full of fans going to and from the game. Online I ordered my own...

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Book Review – George Orwell - 1984

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 27 Jan 17

Various editions The definitive Dystopian vision of a totalitarian future Britain, as scary and relevant today as on publication in 1948. Its title simply swapped round the four and eight to set the work in the not too distant...

alternative facts

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Pub Sign Photo Study – The Moon Under Water – Wigan

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 20 Jun 16

There are several pubs bearing the name Moon Under Water, supposedly based on the Moonrakers’s legend of drunks seeing the moon reflected in a lake after dark and thinking it was drowning. In some versions of the story the men end...

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Essay Review - George Orwell – Wells, Hitler And The World State

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 19 Dec 15

H G Wells had predicted not only the invention of the aero plane, but also that its development would create a new international age of science and technology that would cause the nationalistic Fascism and Communism to melt way....

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Pub Sign Study – The Orwell At Wigan Pier

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 14 Sep 15

Wigan Pier used to be so hard to locate that many people living outside Wigan wondered if Orwell had made it up in his famous study of homelessness, The Road To Wigan Pier. It is a real place, actually a former Leeds & Liverpool...

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Stop,Book thief!

ShepherdSpy @ShepherdSpy (8544) • Omagh, Northern Ireland 21 Jul 09

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/ A disadvantage of the Kindle ebook reader has surfaced...You may have thought you bought and paid for a book you wanted to read on the device,but...

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YAY! I'm a "paper terrorist", I've finaly made the grade!

xfahctor @xfahctor (14113) • Lancaster, New Hampshire 8 Mar 09

Ok, so the group arrested was charged with money laundering and possesion of an automatic weapon, in that aspect, they clearly broke the law. However, What I take issue with is how the investigators classified this group. Why?...

state soviergnty

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ANd just because we were't under enough unnessesary scrutiny

xfahctor @xfahctor (14113) • Lancaster, New Hampshire 22 Nov 08

Here it is folks, the home grown terrorism and radicalization prevention act. Introduced several time in some form over the last 2 years, this time, it passed the house, Oct 23rd. This article makes some interesting comparrisons...

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What is 'Freedom'?

Trefusis @Trefusis (7) • Spain 30 Jun 08

Biometric ID cards will be introdced in the UK soon, many believe microchips implanted under the skin will follow (Such programmes have already begun elsewhere in the world). 20% of the world's CCTV cameras reside in UK...

civil liberties

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Books that are just too damn short

vanalli @vanalli (26) • Hong Kong 3 Aug 07

You know that thing, when you pick up a book and don't expect much, but it turns into a great read and before you know it's over. I hate that. It makes me want to read the book as slowly as possible. Orwell's Down and Out in...

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George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

adb2005 @adb2005 (365) 31 Oct 06

The aim of this discussion is to compare life now as we know it in 2006 to the elements in the book which seem to predict various aspects of our time. i.e.Big Brother

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