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The Top 10 fake George Orwell quotations. A compilation of doubleplusungood examples of quoting things that the author of ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ never wrote . John Rentoul.
Audiences around the world are re-reading George Orwell’s 1984, which is ‘a handbook for difficult times’, writes Jean Seaton.
The year is 1984. It’s Super Bowl Sunday and you turn on the TV to see a procession of stern men marching through a tunnel. No, it’s not the Los Angeles Raiders. It’s the most important ...
In 1984, the United States was pulling out of the recession of Ronald Reagan’s first years in office, with a recovery goosed by tax cuts and ballooning national debt; he would be re-elected in a ...