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.
But some like Muckety, an American site which enriches news stories with interactive maps of the protagonists' networks of influence, and NightJack, the revealing and depressing blog of an anonymous British policeman, which won the Orwell prize last month enhance society's understanding of itself, and could not have existed in the old world.
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.
Up to 4 million or so cameras are now in place, including some around the house of George Orwell, the author of "1984, " which foretold of a "Big Brother" society.
On Dec. 24, 1943, under the pseudonym John Freeman, Orwell wrote that the duty of all left-thinking people is to banish the Christian idea of Heaven and replace it with a nonreligious Utopia of their own design.
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.
So, as the novelist George Orwell once wrote, some farm animals are more equal than others.
The writer George Orwell thought radio and TV were tools that aided dictators, not democrats.
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.
Other famous names on the database include the family of George Orwell and distant relatives of Prime Minister David Cameron.
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.
This is what a surveillance state looks like, and it's efficient beyond the wildest dreams of George Orwell.
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.
George Orwell warned of the dangers of a tyrannical government that justified its rule in the name of the greater good in his classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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All this moving of the goalposts is sounding a bit like the doctoring of the supposedly unalterable Seven Commandments daubed on the barn wall in George Orwell's Animal Farm, or some kids adopting a no-Horace policy in their secret society because they don't like Horace.
So there has been a well-established and heartfelt desire on the more moderate left to claim that Orwell was indeed a genuine socialist whose warning was aimed at totalitarianism in general, not at the left per se.
Police have closed off the surrounding area and said Upper Orwell Street would be shut until further notice.
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