Sixty-Five Years Since Orwell’s Death
George Orwell passed away sixty-five years ago today. He died alone in his room on the fourth floor of UCLH’s…
George Orwell passed away sixty-five years ago today. He died alone in his room on the fourth floor of UCLH’s…
I have been reading Orwell’s As I Please columns from when he was at The Tribune in the early 1940s….
As a regular feature, starting today I’m going to post instances of totalitarian (Soviet, mostly) mis-information that corresponds with “Newspeak’…
In his diary entry for 3 March 1936, George Orwell writes “In the evening was taken to a Methodist Church…
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