GEORGE ORWELL
March 2017
The 45th President is no Big Brother. Brave New World predicted the world today more accurately than Nineteen Eighty-Four
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May 2016
Seventy years after Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”, plain speaking now means avoiding not only jargon but pointless brevity
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March 2015
Orwell criticised writing on politics, but he could not have imagined the solipsism of today's self-regarding pundits and politicians
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November 2014
The surprising story of Britain's first animated feature, Animal Farm
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