One of the most intriguing developments in our current unpredictable political climate has been the Left’s co-opting of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 as a dramatic warning of the ...

But by far the greatest beneficiary of our newly piqued national anxiety is George Orwell’s 1984. Soon after senior ... his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language.” ...

George Orwell escaped to a remote Scottish island to create his final masterpiece - the dystopian classic 1984. Going into the Corryvreckan whirlpool is a heart-stopping experience even when ...

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He was adopted by Eric Blair - better known by his pen name of George Orwell. Orwell's novel 1984 was the origin of the popular understanding of "Big Brother" and "Room 101". Mr Blair told BBC ...

George Orwell’s political ... of the totalitarian world of 1984, overseen by the figure of Big Brother, “the Party” and their dogma of Ingsoc (English Socialism), and the sinister Thought ...

Shortly before he died George Orwell asked that no one write his biography. Though much of his writing, even fiction, had been autobiographical, he valued privacy most of all the English virtues ...