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Barilaro report fails to put NSW government integrity crisis to rest

It took George Orwell just one line to describe a political dystopia: “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

The Conversation

Nicholas Goldberg: Who are you calling a 'fascist' — and do you even know what it means?

Americans know little history and what little they know they forget. Ask college students who won the Civil War or ask adults when the U.S. Constitution was ratified or whom the U.S. fought in World War II and shocking numbers will have no idea.

Los Angeles Times

40 best books to read before you die, from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar to Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

The Independent UK

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NoViolet Bulawayo’s new novel is an instant Zimbabwean classic

In Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo’s new novel Glory – longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 – animals take on human characteristics. Through this she explores what happens when an authoritarian regime implodes, using characters who are horses, pigs, dogs, cows, cats, chickens, crocodiles, birds and butterflies.

The Conversation

In brief: Am I Normal?; Orwell’s Roses; Milk Teeth – reviews

Historian Sarah Chaney unpicks our norms, Rebecca Solnit takes an eclectic approach to an English literary hero, and Jessica Andrews tells a fractured story of escape

The Guardian - UK

George Monbiot wins Orwell prize for journalism

Author recognised for his decades-long commitment to neglected environmental issues

The Guardian - UK

Is Britain tiring of the culture wars?

Brexit was supposed to have left the country bitterly divided. But Henry Mance finds identity battles losing their grip on the national conversation

Financial Times

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Brainwashed by Daniel Pick review – do great minds really think alike?

From The Simpsons to QAnon via The Stepford Wives, the psychoanalyst’s absorbing study of mind control is part media studies, part political history

The Guardian - UK

Ian Rankin and JK Rowling books have opening lines translated into Scots

The Braw Beginnings project has seen the start of a number of popular titles changed into the language.

The Independent UK

A planet in peril and our embrace of Big Brother: George Orwell would have been shocked

The writer did not foresee the wreckage of the entire global system, or our willing submission to monitoring, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit

The Guardian - UK

The 40 best novels to read before you die OLD

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

The Independent UK

A century of war, fascism and death

Billionaires won't give up on corporate rule. The angry masses embrace fascist demagogues. This won't end well

Salon

George Orwell's Animal Farm to be published in Scots

The award-winning book has been chosen as one of nine scrips that will be translated in a push to support the Scots language.

Daily Record

George Orwell’s Animal Farm translated into Scots for first time

A GEORGE Orwell classic is one of nine titles being published in Scots for the first time.

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The Guardian - UK

Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four was about liberalism, not totalitarianism, claims Moscow diplomat

Maria Zakharova says idea book is about totalitarianism is ‘one of the biggest global fakes’, in claim disputed by Russian translator

The Guardian - AU

Controversies, epiphanies and the case against Canva: highlights from Sydney writers’ festival

Coinciding with the federal election, this year’s festival buzzed with big ideas about politics, hope and writing. Here are 10 things we learned

The Guardian - UK

Sandra Newman: ‘Do I want men to go away? No’

The American author on feminist utopias, surviving the apocalypse and who is really responsible for the scourge of electric bikes on the pavement

The Independent UK

The Independent’s Samuel Lovett nominated for Orwell Prize

Samuel Lovett shortlisted for reporting on the lives of families who lost loved ones in the pandemic

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Reason

Don't Trust Biden's Dystopian 'Disinformation Board'

A "disinformation" board sounds like something from a dystopian novel.

The Guardian - UK

Orwell, the towering conscience of a generation, unmasked

Letter: In an essay, the novelist confesses that he might possibly have written reviews of books he had not read, writes Peter Davis

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Russia’s misinformation campaign smacks of what Orwell’s ‘1984′ warned

Madeline Roache seemingly has a dream job: getting paid for watching TV and transcribing what she sees.

The Conversation

How to preserve our privacy in an AI-enabled world of smart fridges and fitbits? Here are my simple fixes

The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that the total entropy of a system – the amount of disorder – only ever increases. In other words, the amount of order only ever decreases.

Al Jazeera

Hundreds of thousands flee Russia and Putin’s ‘two wars’

Some 200,000 Russians have left their homes and jobs, fearful of being persecuted for opposing Putin’s war on Ukraine.

The Independent UK

‘Orient Express’ experience ends with a bus from Calais to Lille and Eurostar to London

Train Talk: One plus point of the new arrangement is that passengers arrive at the most majestic terminus in Britain, London St Pancras

The Guardian - UK

The icy pull of tragic polar exploration

Brief letters: A fascination with tragic heroes | Is artificial intelligence an oxymoron? | Orwell’s linguistic inventions | From Granny to Mum to Mumma | Sailing to San Serriffe

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