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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.

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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

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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

The Guardian - UK

‘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

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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.”

Roll Call

Orwell was right to take a swing at sport

The Guardian - UK

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.

Marie Claire

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

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

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.

The Guardian - UK

Banned! The 20 books they didn’t want you to read

From Instagram poetry to Greek classics, the works of fiction that have caused uproar through history – and into the present

Evening Standard

Fire breaks out above centuries-old Soho pub visited by George Orwell and Madonna

Famous writers, painters and pop stars have visited the Dog and Duck over the years

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The Orwellian echoes in Trump’s push for ‘Americanism’ at the Smithsonian

When people use the term “Orwellian,” it’s not a good sign.

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Animal Farm at 80: why the animals really matter in Orwell’s parable about communism

George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945) turns 80 on August 17 2025. If there’s one thing every student of history or politics knows, it’s that the novella is not really about animals. Sure, the principal characters are pigs and horses. But really, so we are told, it is about the Soviet…

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"I don't think I would have become a writer without that summer of Aggie" – author Louise Candlish shares the 5 books that changed her life

As Louise's new novel A Neighbour’s Guide to Murder flies off the shelves, she confesses to doing a weird thing to her childhood favourite book, and the book that fills her with "evil glee"!

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Animal Farm at 80: George Orwell’s enduring commitment to socialist revolution

During the early years of the second world war, George Orwell believed that England’s revolutionary moment had arrived. The defeat at Dunkirk had discredited the country’s ruling elite. Their bungling had left England on the verge of invasion and defeat.

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10 Sci-Fi Books That Predicted The Future (Kinda)

Some futures are brighter than others.

The Guardian - AU

Writing is all about discipline, love, luck and endurance – and I sure know about endurance

My ‘writing day’ is inevitably taken up by the exigencies of family life, leaving spare nights and weekends to write. It’s heady but painful business

The Guardian - UK

18 months. 12,000 questions. A whole lot of anxiety. What I learned from reading students’ ChatGPT logs

Students increasingly use AI chatbots for anything from academic queries to emotional quandaries. But are they missing out on the chance to make their own mistakes? Three undergrads reveal all …

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