My papers, articles and posts on #Orwell

Four Corners reveals how inexpensive drones are changing warfare in Ukraine. It is a disturbing and brilliant report. We live in a video game.

A particularly vivid news story about the use of drones in warfare. but what strikes me is that the inexpensive mass production of them.

Are you a young journalist, full-time resident in the UK, studying for a journalism qualification or starting out on your journalism career, who would like to win a prestigious award that significantly enhances your developing CV? Closing date: Monday 24th March, 2025 #Orwell

RT @mattcrotts: Learning about how Cambodia essentially begins with the Buddhist wizard Vajrabodhi, who brought esoteric tantric (=magical)…

Do what you personally can to encourage younger people to enrol to vote! #WAPol #Auspol via @ABCaustralia

@JaneCaro on the continuing disgrace that is our government! #Auspol #Gonski

Whoever is managing @myer's digital platforms and thought it was a good idea to delete accounts that don't have matching passwords by mid-Feb really does not have much of clue! No point going into the detail as to why as it will be obvious to any use who tries to do it! Fail!

Starting North Woods. Anyone read it? #reading

RT @DingoResearch: Australians have, so far, failed to make politicians protect our environment. #auspol ‘an area larger than Tasmania ha…

In the NYT today! #Auspol

Christopher Pyne's application to join @chaser

#Orwell imagined he could have been "a happy vicar"!

Re-reading ‘A Clergyman’s Daughter’ with #Orwell’s grandparents in mind!

RT @stats_feed: 🇺🇸 In the United States, 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level, 20% are below 5th-grade level, and 21% are…

Watch from 31.30 minutes in for an interesting look at #Deepseek and Winston Smith!

RT @JonathanPieNews: The Corporate Con. With corporate greed out of control, it's time for a Labour to start governing.

“Ever since my days at the convent, my secret heroes had been decadents, aesthetes, doomed Romantics, mad Bohemians and opium-eaters,” she wrote in her 1994 book Faithfull: An Autobiography.

“Sportsbet’s markets are favouring the Coalition to form the next government, offering $1.61 over Labor at $2.25, and preferring a Coalition minority over a majority, $2.80 compared to $3.10.” #Auspol

Why is my t-shirt more offensive to our prime minister than a 50-year assault on democracy? via @crikey_news #Auspol