September 4, 2007

Life imitates Art

Why MI5 spied on Orwell for a decade (Article was found via a post at India Uncut)

The word irony gets used wrongly in many contexts these days but I think it is appropriate here. Also, "expected" comes to mind.

Related: Highly recommend seeing last years Oscar winner for best foreign film: the German movie, The Lives of Others, which deals with spying by the government on its people.
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