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Martin Doye cartoon: Orwell in the sand

Orwell in the sand

By Martin Doyle

Ref:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23012637

The spin and rhetoric of modern politics involve the kind of "doublethink" and "Newspeak" that George Orwell correctly forecast in  his book Nineteen Eighty-Four  [published in 1949]


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See more Martin Doyle cartoon at:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/Martin-Doyle/607865899238901?ref=hl

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