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Nothing says prosperity like building a bigger bureaucracy - just ask George Orwell

Nothing says prosperity like building a bigger bureaucracy - just ask George Orwell

Canada needs more journalists able to see the obvious and question it

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Eric Arthur Blair - pen name George Orwell - at work at the BBC

Eighty-three years ago this week, on June 10, 1942, George Orwell made an entry in his diary that has left me stirred, shaken, and then stirred again.

I was looking for a quote in his four-volume collected Essays, Journalism and Letters to the effect that the Left – Orwell self-identifying as…

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