George Orwell and a Knight at the Opera

On the way back from college, I popped into Bluewater to have a nice cup of coffee and nosey about. In Waterstones, they had a display of that non-South African author George Orwell. They had Politics and the English Language in pamphlet form for 99p. Bargain!

It's one of his best essays and most readable, after Lion and the Unicorn. It can be read in it's entirety here, and it's especially good for people who know English as a second language. Radio 4 have also been running a series on the author recently.

I also stopped in the Lego shop and found a Knight!

He seems a cheerful chappie, doesn't he.

The Road To Wigan Pier Revisited

While shopping for a birthday present the other day, I came across an intriguing new book:

In it the author has retraced the steps George Orwell took back in 1936 to examine poverty in Britain in 2010. He also gave an interview to RSA which is on Youtube:



With things this screwed up, is it any wonder people are marching.