Friday 10 February 2012

Irony II



The picture appears to be photoshopped, the powers-that-be surely wouldn't be that blatant (would they?). Nevertheless, Britain has the highest ratio of surveillance cameras per capita in the world. This in the land that gave us the Magna Carta and English Common Law.

This post was brought about from re-reading Orwell's collected essays. What a master of lucid prose! And what would he have made of recent political developments?

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