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How George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four predicted the global power shifts happening now

There’s nothing new about calling George Orwell’s most influential novel prescient. But the focus has usually been on his portrayal of the oppressive aspects of life in Oceania, the superstate in which Nineteen Eighty-Four is set.

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Why we love literary anniversaries

Last year marked 250 years since the birth of the English novelist Jane Austen. The Conversation celebrated this important literary milestone with a series of articles and a dedicated podcast, Jane Austen’s Paper Trail. This special year saw a variety of high-profile celebratory events across the country, from regency balls…

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What January taught George Orwell about control and resistance

Like many of us, George Orwell saw January as a month to be endured rather than enjoyed. You can picture him steeling himself against its cold, gloom, rain, frost and wind.

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Mass surveillance, the metaverse, making America ‘great again’: the novelists who predicted our present

From Jorge Luis Borges to George Orwell and Margaret Atwood, novelists have foreseen some of the major developments of our age. What can we learn from their prophecies?

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'Reject the Evidence of Your Eyes': Users Say Renee Good ICE Shooting Is Straight Out of George Orwell's 1984 Playbook

The fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has drawn comparisons to George Orwell's 1984.

International Business Times UK

An attack on left-wing, literary ‘culture police’ displays the flawed thinking it aims to critique

Adam Szetela’s That Book Is Dangerous! makes the case that we exist in the “Sensitivity Era”.

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Political Theater’s conversations with filmmakers and other people who dig movies - Roll Call

We like to put the theater in Political Theater every so often. George Orwell, Ukrainian artists, the Christmas Adventurers Club. Movies don’t have to be overtly political to say something about politics. Sometimes just documenting what life is like can become inherently political. What the best films do — be…

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Bones, brides and odysseys: The 20 most anticipated movies of 2026

Welcome to your moviegoing guide for 2026! Here are our picks for the unmissable movies coming to a cinema near you in the first half of the year.

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Sean Duffy’s daughter rails against TSA after she was given a pat down at airport security checkpoint

Evita Duffy-Alfonso says she almost missed her flight after waiting for the pat down since she declined to use the TSA’s body scanning technology

The Independent UK

Karoline Leavitt’s White House briefing doublethink is straight out of Orwell’s ‘1984’

During a press conference on Dec. 11, 2025, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced there was good news on the state of the economy.

The Conversation

New Animal Farm animated comedy is getting roasted already

But does it really 'invert' the message of George Orwell's novella?

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Kraftwerk’s equipment defined electronic music. Now it’s on sale to the highest bidder

On November 18 and 19 in Nashville, United States, auction house Julien’s will auction more than 450 items from the estate of Florian Schneider, the co-founder of German electronic band Kraftwerk.

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Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library

The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced priorities, says novelist Zadie Smith

The Guardian - UK

Fraught, tense and visceral: there’s never been a football match quite like Maccabi’s visit to Aston Villa

Undeniably strange and redolent of wider horrors at one remove, this Europa League tie was a groaning platter of geopolitics with a tiny little sprig of sport dusted across the top

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‘You and the Atom Bomb’: how George Orwell’s 1945 essay predicted the Cold War and nuclear proliferation

August 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just a month after the attacks, on 19 October 1945, George Orwell published an essay in the London Tribune, entitled “You and the Atom Bomb”. In it, he surmised what if “the great nations make…

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Flag alert! Gary Neville may not be Orwell but he is a very English type of patriot

An easy target for accusations of luxury hypocrisy, Neville has at least tried to address an issue that has everything to do with aggressively flag-draped and militarised modern sport

Roll Call

How director Raoul Peck found a ‘new Orwell’ - Roll Call

“He was not writing about some sort of future republic,” says the Academy Award-nominated director of “Orwell: 2+2=5.”

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The 21 Best Science-Fiction Books to Read in 2025, From Genre Classics to New Bestsellers

We rounded up the best of the genre, from classics by George Orwell and Octavia E. Butler to recent bestsellers.

Evening Standard

What did Elon Musk say at the Unite the Kingdom march? Speech in full

Elon Musk called for “massive government reform” and warned “violence is coming” to the UK

The Guardian - UK

Nothing prepared me for the child poverty I see in Britain. November’s budget can and must halt its inexorable rise

Homes without heating, bedrooms without beds. If we are to offer any hope to the children of austerity, the next few weeks will be decisive, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

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A new world order isn’t coming, it’s already here − and this is what it looks like

On Sept. 3, 2025, China celebrated the 80th anniversary of its victory over Japan by staging a carefully choreographed event in which 26 world leaders were offered a podium view of Beijing’s impressive military might.

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Canada: Alberta pauses book ban after schools remove Handmaid’s Tale, 1984 and other classics

The province says it will review its controversial policy after outcry over removing beloved novels from classrooms

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The Thursday Murder Club: everything is eclipsed by the cakes in this sanitised Netflix adaptation

In his essay Decline of the English Murder, the writer George Orwell evokes the pleasure to be had in reading about killing. After a good meal (including pudding), you are in the mood to read: “the sofa cushions are soft underneath you, the fire is well alight, the air is…

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Orwell’s opposition to totalitarianism was rooted in his support for freeing workers from poverty and exploitation

George Orwell’s dystopian novels “Animal Farm” and “1984” have remained popular in the U.S. ever since their initial publication in the 1940s.

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