And he evokes with uncomfortable clarity the self-imposed poverty and discomfort of the Orwell household.
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Delivering the Orwell Lecture last week, he said most journalists didn't want the courts, the state, Europe or MPs to regulate the press.
Richard Horton, a detective constable at Lancashire police, won the Orwell Prize in 2009 for his anonymous blog Night Jack, about life in the police force.
It was published last year in Britain (but only this month in the United States) and recently won the Orwell prize, an award for political writing.
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"On the one hand he would have been interested in the democratic possibilities of it - anyone can do it as long as they've got access to a machine, " says DJ Taylor, Orwell's biographer and chair of the Orwell Trust.
Work on a flood defence barrier across the River Orwell at the entrance to the New Cut is due to begin in 2014.
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His is characterised by, among other things, the poetry of William Blake, the writing of George Orwell, the World Cup victory of 1966 and Marmite.
Researchers at University College London (UCL) have just finished a three-year study of British slave-owners and found the ancestors of novelists George Orwell and Graham Greene and the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott all owned slaves.
For years the question of Orwell's intentions in Nineteen Eighty-Four has caused great debate.
Setting legal considerations aside, it is worth noting that TSP hardly sprung from the imagination of Orwell.
Mr Kelly points out that apart from a modern intrusion in the form of Harry Potter, the top 10 is dominated by the literary canon in the shape of the Brontes, Orwell and Tolkien.
To read them is to make the belated acquaintance of a critic who at his best was worthy of direct comparison with George Orwell, the writer whom he most closely resembled.
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Images of Alfred Hitchcock fleeing from the pigeons on Trafalgar Square, George Orwell installing CCTV cameras and the Mayor of London Boris Johnson polishing the shoes of his predecessor Ken Livingstone are among the tongue-in-cheek caricatures that welcome you.
And in fact they take one of John Grierson's films, Coal Face, and actually literally insert George Orwell into the frame.
To commemorate the centenary of George Orwell's birth, biographer DJ Taylor will be at Ottakars Bookshop in Norwich on 25 June at 1900 BST.
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Emma Larkin is the nom de plume of an American living in Bangkok who wrote an earlier book about George Orwell's links with the country.
Among those who received pay-outs were the ancestors of novelists George Orwell and Graham Greene.
It's just wonderful stuff, and it operates on two levels, the very spirited documentary on Orwell, but its also a tribute to British documentary film making.
Police have closed off the surrounding area and said Upper Orwell Street would be shut until further notice.
George Orwell was fascinated by the latest developments in culture and technology.
The right, of course, have had the easier task of suggesting that Orwell was writing about what he appeared to be writing about.
The English writer and essayist George Orwell was also a great advocate of an economic style and like Vonnegut compiled his own set of rules on how to write well.
But what would George Orwell himself have made of the modern political blogosphere?
Labour-supporting pop music entrepreneur Alan McGee has likened the party to Big Brother in George Orwell's novel 1984 and accused Tony Blair of being "a control freak".
Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in 1949, but Orwell was first set on the road to it at least 12 years earlier when he was fighting Franco's insurgents in Spain as a member of a left-wing, but non-Stalinist militia, the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM).
More would side with George Orwell that serious sport is war minus the shooting.
Hitchings nods at Orwell respectfully but still has questions about the campaign for plain English to which the great man contributed so heavily.
He rails against the modern language of wine, which he describes as the worst sort of synthesis of Lewis Carroll and George Orwell and creating a club designed to exclude other people.
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One clue comes from George Orwell, whose wartime Tribune columns I read during the holiday break.
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