So The Orwell Prize has commenced publishing Orwell’s own diaries as a blog. A pretty novel idea I reckon, and a great way to try and bring a deceased writer’s diaries to a new audience, using the medium most are comfortable with. The entries are being posted exactly 70 years to the day [...]

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I have an exam tomorrow for Sociology of the Media and Pop Culture, which has been an interesting subject.  Whilst a little undergraduate in content, it’s thrown up some good analyses of audience and consumerism.
As a reward to myself for having seen off two subjects this semester, I plan to purchase the latest Murray Whelan [...]

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In some very exciting news, Bob Ellis has updated his website. His pieces from all of 2005, and this year too, are now online for my pleasure!
I’ve mused previously how I’d love this man’s life - reading his work is as close as I am for now.
I might re-read one of his books this week.

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Whilst reading a transcript of a Bob Ellis interview, I found a great quote:

GEORGE NEGUS: What I find interesting about the fact that you’re such an independent thinker – that you could turn to political writing, whereas you said you have to demolish your own voice to give somebody else one.

BOB ELLIS: I think there’s [...]

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