Eric's Trip
Orwell's promise: simplify your English, avoid orthodoxy. But 70 years on, journalists are still in thrall to power despite cleaner prose.
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).