Rings a bell

2006-09-29T00:00:00

Reading Ellis Woodman’s account of Foster’s Kazakhstan Palace of Peace & Accord last week I was reminded of a passage in George Orwell’s 1984: “The ministry of truth — minitrue in Newspeak — was startlingly different from any other object in sight. It was a enormous pyramidal structure of glittering ...

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