Managed to find this fascinating and rarely shown column by George Orwell from 11 of August, 1944, in the Tribune (His column was called ‘As I Please’, and he often did). I reproduce it here because it’s a side of George you may not have seen, directly challenging the racist practices of his time. Next […]

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The events of last week’s Hugo Awards reminds me of one friday night long ago at the hotel I work at. Five guests–three guys, two gals–piled out of a taxi and proceeded to make my evening hellish. They had been out drinking. They chanted and bellowed as they came into reception and laughed in my […]

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1:  Congratulations to the winners. You all worked hard and had your hard work rewarded. 2: Congratulations to the voters. Clearly a lot of people put some serious thought into their choices. Where choice was possible the fans called good. Where the Forces Of Arse had made no real choice possible the voter- the typical […]

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So that short film wot I wrote, Flawless, got shown at Leicester’s Indian Summer free film festival. It’s basically a night where they inflate a great big screen, pop it down on Leicester’s brand shiny new Jubilee Square and invite the locals to watch films (There was even a kiosk handing out free popcorn to […]

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So I’ve decided to move from Blogger to WordPress, which, to my limited knowledge, is fairly common practice. It certainly looks more ‘pro’, whatever that means. But it’s more than that. Things change. My focus has shifted from short stories to novels and film projects and I’m finding this effects the output of blog posts. […]

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