Michael Greenwell

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. – Aldous Huxley

Daily Archives: April 28, 2009

THE ACTIVE AND THE PASSIVE

In his piece of absolute f%&king genius Politics and the English Language, George Orwell suggested that we should always use the active instead of the passive in political writing. Most of you will know that if you change a sentence from the active… Shakespeare wrote Hamlet to the passive… Hamlet was written by Shakespeare there [...]

PUPPET SEX

Well, not exactly. And not exactly puppet sex pistols either. But it is Puppet Sid Vicious. I managed to catch the end of this at a busking festival last year so if you have ever wanted to see a puppet dancing to a Sid Vicious song then this is your moment…

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