18 February 2007

18th February 2007 - Prose to give George Orwell a hernia

The London Review of Books - prose to give George Orwell a hernia.

Well, here I am again.

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I like it when people engage with what is being said and don't resort to ad hominem arguments.

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Surely we should have enough freedom of speech that we are allowed to criticise a group of people?

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In this era of tuition fees and industrial scale Higher Education in which degrees seem to garner an exaggerated respect it's maybe worth remembering that George Orwell, one of the most important intellectuals of the last tumultuous century, never went to university and never held an academic post.
His ideas are still relevant or maybe I should say indispensable.