http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2008/07/orwell_blogs_for_newsnight.html en-gb 30 Fri 08 Jan 2010 18:29:07 GMT+1 A feed of user comments from the page found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2008/07/orwell_blogs_for_newsnight.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2008/07/orwell_blogs_for_newsnight.html?page=18#comment9 Well done Paul. It's good to see that it's becoming more de rigueur to treat tories as the Trotskyites that they are. Fri 15 Aug 2008 08:10:15 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2008/07/orwell_blogs_for_newsnight.html?page=16#comment8 As the man himself might have said after his sojourn in Paris: plus ca change.... Thu 31 Jul 2008 09:17:26 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2008/07/orwell_blogs_for_newsnight.html?page=14#comment7 Very amusing! Have to agree with Spanner though, Labour have brought 1984 into our lives! Thu 31 Jul 2008 00:27:59 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2008/07/orwell_blogs_for_newsnight.html?page=12#comment6 Forgot to mention the strange idea perpetrated on Women's Hour that when a woman says "No", she means "No". I'll have to stick to just looking.Great stuff, Paul (pun intended) Wed 30 Jul 2008 23:01:18 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2008/07/orwell_blogs_for_newsnight.html?page=10#comment5 Orwells 1984 isn't a book anymore, it's Britain. Under Nu Labour, new laws have accelerated to 1,600 a year. No Totalitarian State in the world has as many spy-cameras or produced so many trivial laws to criminalise it's liberal law abiding citizens with.I've just read Jack Straws comments in a Lanchashire newspaper about "being harder on criminals". He fails to mention we are the ardest in Europe already with the longest prison sentances and sending more of our citizens to prison for equal crimes than anywhere in the world bar America.This is the 'hard line' to punish triviality when he shrugs his shoulders at Britains breeches of international law laid down after Nuremburg about pre-emptive strikes being illegal. A murderous war based on a cut and paste dossier that was intentional deceipt. And Tony and Jack promoted the so-called 'intelligence' chief after the scandal broke.Depite crime falling here (and worldwide) he promotes the police for doing a great job. The fact is police solving of crime is flat. They've less crime, more time to solve but they're productivity is declining. An even greater surprise when you consider how many spy-cameras there are to help. And we all love Jack for forcing off 60m pairs of shoes at airports, 40min cues and how much his national security policies work. It's a raging success isn't it? These Labour clowns are hated nationwide for their nanny State, hard line on pettiness and soft line on incompetance. They make national and global errors and nobody is softer on themselves than these hypocrites. Labour RIP. Wed 30 Jul 2008 20:17:10 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2008/07/orwell_blogs_for_newsnight.html?page=8#comment4 ORWELLIAN HARMANI gather some Jack Dromeys are less equal than others? Did I hear Harriet say: if a woman reckoned that 'when he woke up he was going to kill her' then it was OK to kill him while he slept'? Is that (Wikipedia) stuff true about Harriet's kids all being 'Harmans' and Jack using the name sometimes too? Is this a leg-pull? When a feminist exterminates a bloke - is it hate crime? How did Harriet come by her view of men? No wonder no one told Jack about the loans fiddle - Harriet said not to tell him anything!If she becomes PM, we will all be discumbobulated in short order. Be very afraid guys! Wed 30 Jul 2008 17:53:17 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2008/07/orwell_blogs_for_newsnight.html?page=6#comment3 Must investigate author's attempt at assuming multiple identities to cover his licentious pursuits and subversive contributions to capitalist pamphlets.Note to self: author's wife reads pamphlets?!The pre-revolutionary situation continues. Wed 30 Jul 2008 17:09:38 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2008/07/orwell_blogs_for_newsnight.html?page=4#comment2 It was Orwell doing the ogling - not me! Wed 30 Jul 2008 15:54:34 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2008/07/orwell_blogs_for_newsnight.html?page=2#comment1 Am left contemplating the author ogling at girls from bus, sitting in a cab being made to listen to TalkSport, and scoffing at HoL ruling... priceless! Wed 30 Jul 2008 15:29:59 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2008/07/orwell_blogs_for_newsnight.html?page=0#comment0 Paul,While I am full of respect for your heroic efforts to make economics interesting, I fear the worst. Incisive blogging of this quality deserves a wider audience. Good stuff. Wed 30 Jul 2008 14:23:57 GMT+1