george orwell

In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the telescreen is the primary tool of totalitarian surveillance. It is, in Orwell's words, “an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the wall . . . The instrument could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.

When the psychological contract between the state and the citizens reaches breaking point, trust in the state is lost and its credibility simply vanishes. As we march towards the watershed elections, there is a sense in the air of both hope and hopelessness, relief and distress, anxiety and indifference.

I had an apple-and-tree moment one morning this week when I passed my 12-year-old on the couch, as he usually is before the drive to school. The apple wasn't doing what he usually does, however. He was reading Nineteen Eighty-Four. Talk about the power of George Orwell! It's strong enough to divert ...

Montague House in High Street was the family home of George Orwell – whose real name was Eric Blair – from 1932-39. The Grade II-Listed house, which is privately owned, already has a plaque in place to recognise his residence there, but the Orwell Society has now submitted an application for a fresh ...

Proposals have been lodged to maintain George Orwell's link with his former home with a "more legible sign". Montague House in Southwold, Suffolk, was the family home of the author, whose real name was Eric Blair, from 1932-39. The privately-owned Grade II-listed house already has a plaque in place ...

The Chinese government has banned posts referring to George Orwell's dystopian satirical novella Animal Farm and the letter 'N' in a wide-ranging online censorship crackdown. Experts believe the increased levels of suppression - which come just days after the Chinese Communist Party announced ...

Chinese Censors Ban Winnie The Pooh, George Orwell And Letter 'N' To Silence Xi Critics. They've been busy scrubbing the web as critics take aim at President Xi Jinping's expansion of power. 237. By Dominique Mosbergen. As criticism against President Xi Jinping's power grab has surfaced on Chinese ...

The Chinese government has banned posts referring to George Orwell's dystopian satirical novella Animal Farm and the letter 'N' in a wide-ranging online censorship crackdown. Experts believe the increased levels of suppression - which come just days after the Chinese Communist Party announced ...

Victims of the purge range from the somewhat expected (George Orwell books and the word “disagree”) to the more bewildering (the letter “N” was one that even took China experts by surprise). The Chinese government on Sunday announced plans to scrap a constitutional clause limiting presidential ...

Chinese Censors Ban Winnie The Pooh, George Orwell And Letter 'N' To Silence Xi Critics. They've been busy scrubbing the web as critics take aim at President Xi Jinping's expansion of power. By Dominique Mosbergen ...

For this installment of Author Spotlight, I thought we could throw it back a bit, and highlight a classic author whose works are more prevalent and prophetic than ever. George Orwell was a British novelist and essayist in the mid 19040's. He is best known for his two novels, “Nineteen Eighty-Four” and “Animal ...

The day after Kellyanne Conway stepped up to the microphone and suggested that there were “alternate facts” regarding crowd size at the President Trump's inauguration, Penguin Books launched a 75,000-copy reprinting of “1984” by George Orwell. The book shot up to number one on Amazon. All over ...

Every so often, George Orwell's essay “Shooting an Elephant” finds me and demands a reckoning. The essay, first published in 1936, describes an incident that may or may not have actually taken place, from a period of Orwell's life, in the nineteen-twenties, when he was living in Burma and serving as an ...

Richard Blair was adopted by Orwell six years before his death. Photograph: Efren Landaos/Rex. George Orwell's son is to star in a new musical inspired by The Road To Wigan Pier, written and performed by the people of Wigan. Richard Blair, who was adopted by Orwell six years before his death in 1950, ...

Everyone knows the casual economy has led to a decline in wages and conditions for many unskilled workers. But sometimes it's hard to see just how big the losses have been. James Bloodworth follows in George Orwell's footsteps and goes undercover to explore the world of casual labour. He finds that it ...

The recent republication of Christopher Hollis's controversial critical-biographical study of George Orwell—originally published in 1956 (by Hollis's own firm, Hollis and Carter) and out of print for more than half a century—furnishes an occasion not only to reconsider the conservative streak in the socialist ...

Those pigs. Can't trust them, can't ignite a revolution without them. Why can't they just be content with being what they are–bacon? Pigs, propaganda, the proletariat and politics proliferate in Center Stage's visceral, beautiful and chillingly relevant production of Animal Farm, George Orwell's 1945 allegorical ...

The Road to Wigan Pier, which the Mirror has been retracing, turns out to be a tale of two Georges. There is George Orwell, the famous writer in whose steps are we following. And George Garrett, the almost unknown working-class writer, activist and merchant seaman. “I was very greatly impressed by ...