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Orwell: 2+2=5 review – documentary portrait doesn’t wholly add up

Raoul Peck’s film about the Nineteen Eighty-Four novelist makes a compelling case for its continuing relevance but could ask more searching questions about its author

The Guardian - UK

‘Orwell went off to fight. I thought I’d have to do the same’: Raoul Peck on his intimate connection with the writer

The Haitian director was given unprecedented access to George Orwell’s archives – and found a fellow crusader for truth. His extraordinary new film highlights the sinister links between Big Brother, Trump and Putin

The Guardian - UK

Out of the frying pan? Noma’s Rene Redzepi resigns, and fine dining confronts 'brigade' culture

The downfall of the world's top chef has raised questions about whether time is up for the storied bullying and abuse of fine dining kitchens

The Independent UK

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By Closing Moscow's Gulag History Museum, Putin Is Erasing Inconvenient Soviet History

As George Orwell warned, "Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present, controls the past."

Reason

Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'Orwell: 2+2=5' - Chilling and indispensable

Raoul Peck takes the words of George Orwell and connects the dots between the writer’s diary entries and present-day totalitarian regimes. The filmmaker signs one of the most urgent and essential documentaries of the 21st century.

Euronews

Slavery exhibit removed by Trump administration returns to Philadelphia’s Independence Mall after judge’s order

The Trump administration is appealing the decision restoring the exhibit about history of slavery

The Independent UK

‘Filmmaking is political’: Raoul Peck on ‘Orwell: 2+2=5’, Donald Trump, and the dangers of AI

"It’s a problem when you lose your connection with history. The ignorance is really incredible. Even though we had the facilities and instruments all along..." Euronews Culture sits down with Raoul Peck to discuss his new documentary, 'Orwell: 2+2=5' - one of the most urgent and vital films of 2026.

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Trump administration is erasing history and science at national parks, lawsuit argues

Conservation and historical organizations are suing the Trump administration over National Park Service policies that the groups say erase history and science from America’s national parks

The Independent UK

US judge orders Trump administration to restore Philadelphia slavery exhibit

In ruling, judge cited quote from Orwell’s novel 1984 describing process by which authoritarians rewrite history

The Guardian - US

Judge orders reversal of Trump decision to remove George Washington slavery exhibit

The exhibit's removal was a direct consequence of a Trump executive order

The Independent UK

Judge quotes Orwell’s 1984 as she orders Trump to restore slavery exhibits in Philadelphia

Judge compares president’s attempts to erase history to the dystopian Ministry of Truth

The Independent UK

Where will I get £2 in a cashless world?

The Guardian - UK

The 10 best space and sci-fi Super Bowl commercials of all time

Ready for Super Sunday? Huddle up for our out-of-this-world roundup of Big Game ads for the ages

Space

George Orwell called for a new way of thinking about science

In October 1945, George Orwell responded to a letter from Mr J. Stewart Cook in the leftwing weekly newspaper Tribune calling for more science education.

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Trump’s post-truth agenda beaten back as Americans refuse to accept ICE lies

Effort to manipulate killing of Alex Pretti collapsed after footage torpedoed ‘domestic terrorist’ claim – could this be a turning point?

The Guardian - UK

Superstates and spheres of influence

Brief letters: Orwell’s insight | Antisocial media | AI takeover | Howff Club | Beyond the Tamar

The Conversation

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.

The Conversation

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.

The Guardian - UK

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?

International Business Times UK

'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.

The Conversation

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…

Euronews

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.

The Independent UK

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

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