Prospero | George Orwell on writing

Johnson: Those six little rules

Language is no place for absolute laws

By R.L.G. | BERLIN

IN MY last column, I referred to The Economist’s style guide, which includes George Orwell’s famous six rules for writing, taken from “Politics and the English Language”:

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