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Houman Barekat

is a London-based writer and the editor of Review 31. He is co-editor, with Mike Gonzalez, of 'Arms and the People: Popular Movements and the Military from the Paris Commune to the Arab Spring' (Pluto Press, 2013).

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Eric's Trip

By Houman BarekatFebruary 8, 2013
Orwell's promise: simplify your English, avoid orthodoxy. But 70 years on, journalists are still in thrall to power despite cleaner prose.
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