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The recent landmark ruling by the UK’s Supreme Court – that the term “sex” in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex, ...
Russia, Ukraine, France, China, United States ORWELL 1984–2025, Newspeak: User Manual ...
Donald Trump, whose executive orders, such as “Ending the Weaponisation of the Federal Government”, resemble the up-is-down doctrines of the mythical Oceania in 1984.Credit: Bloomberg via ...
A review of 'Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5," Raoul Peck's documentary about the writing of 1984 and how Orwell's ideas apply to Trump and modern fascism.
In George Orwell’s classic novel “1984,” people in the totalitarian state of Oceania are controlled by a mysterious authority figure called “Big Brother.” One method of control is the language ...
Responses to the story of Carol, an immigrant arrested in a conservative Missouri town. Also: Death by aid cuts; an Orwellian ...
For about half an hour or so, Raoul Peck’s documentary “Orwell: 2+2=5” is amazingly restrained in the way it deals with author George Orwell, his seminal dystopian novel “1984” and its ...
We live in a time when governments use lexical distortions to manipulate public opinion – the very thing author George Orwell captured so cogently in his dystopian novel 1984, where the ...
In George Orwell’s search for isolation from a troubled world on a Scottish island and the pursuit of pleasure in simple things, photographer Craig Easton has followed. Now, a new book that ...
Strange times, given that the "thoughtcrime" prophesied by George Orwell's pen - those ... a reality in the country of the author of “1984.” Orwell's book was written in 1948 when the Soviets ...