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Machine-learning systems are problematic. That’s why tech bosses call them ‘AI’

Pretending that opaque, error-prone ML is part of the grand, romantic quest to find artificial intelligence is an attempt to distract us from the truth

The Guardian - UK

Forgotten story of the BBC's first black radio producer and trailblazer Una Marson

Una Marson and her accolades have finally been reconigised as the BBC premiers a new documentary - Una Marson: Our lost Caribbean Voice - to remember an iconic but often overlooked woman in our history

Daily Mirror

Ian Jack obituary

Brilliant exponent of long-form journalism, Guardian columnist and editor of the Independent on Sunday in the 1990s

The Guardian - UK

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Check your ‘privilege’: unpacking the real meaning of the most overused word in politics

Becoming prime minister was ‘the greatest privilege’ of Rishi Sunak’s life. But the phrase loved by both sides of the political spectrum is sometimes a humble brag – and sometimes an insult

The Guardian - UK

George Orwell’s works to be published soon on email subscription platform Substack

While author George Orwell died in 1950, his works including '1984' and 'Animal Farm' are considered classics and widely read even today. Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair. And now, owing to his popularity with readers, news is that Orwell's works will soon be published on Substack--…

The Times of India

George Orwell’s classic works to be published on Substack

Down and Out in Paris and London will start the project and be delivered to subscribers in ‘coffee break’ segments

The Guardian - UK

Una Marson: Our Lost Caribbean Voice review – a beautiful, moving portrait of BBC’s first Black broadcaster

The extraordinary Jamaican poet, playwright, editor and producer became a radio sensation in the 1940s, but her name has been largely lost to history – an injustice this deft documentary is here to remedy

The Guardian - UK

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Friday essay: George Orwell is everywhere, but Nineteen Eighty-Four is not a reliable guide to contemporary politics

In January 2017, Donald Trump’s advisor Kellyanne Conway was quizzed on White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s false claims about the number of attendees at the president’s inauguration. When pressed on why Spicer would “utter a provable falsehood”, Conway said that Spicer was offering “alternative facts”.

The Conversation

BBC at 100: a trusted international news source, but it's important to remember whose values it reflects

As the BBC turns 100 we should celebrate its extraordinary history as a public service broadcaster bringing news and other programming to audiences around the globe. In 2020-2021 the BBC announced that its World Service achieved its highest-ever audience, with an average of close to 500 million listeners globally each…

The Conversation

‘The story had been stirring in me for most of my life’: How I wrote a Booker-shortlisted novel

NoViolet Bulawayo, Percival Everett, Alan Garner and others reveal the inspiration for the books up for this year’s award

The Guardian - UK

Alex Jones’ lawyer says he is a ‘mad prophet’ like The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood or George Orwell

“There have always been creative geniuses in the world,” Jones’ attorney Norm Pattis says

The Independent UK

Tearing up the script: how playwright Robert Icke transforms the classics

As the award-winning writer and director prepares to bring The Doctor, his adaptation of the 1912 play Professor Bernhardi, to the West End, Andrzej Lukowski discusses Icke’s gripping adaptations of classic texts with actor Joshua Higgott

The Guardian - UK

Who's a "conservative"? Not these folks

Describing radical extremists and insurrectionists as "conservative" is an insult to Orwell — and reality

Salon

Can you be both keen on tradition and open to change? Well, that sounds like Britain to me

That the country has modernised so quickly is due in part to the continuity provided by the monarchy

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Queen Elizabeth II: Queues run to 30 hours as people pay respects

In his essay on the English people, George Orwell remarked that any foreign observer would be struck by their orderly behavior and in particular “the willingness to form queues.” It’s one of those British stereotypes that’s come to mind in recent days, as the mother of all queues lengthens and…

Newcastle Herald

NSW government pays $9000 for land titles mixup but still denies liability a decade later

Closure of sorts to a legal nightmare

Bangkok Post

Real social networks coming to an end

Not only are billions of people around the world glued to their mobile phones, but the information they consume has changed dramatically -- and not for the better. On dominant social media platforms like Facebook, researchers have documented that falsehoods spread faster and more widely than similar content that includes…

The Guardian - UK

Peter Davison obituary

Leading authority on the life of George Orwell who edited the mammoth 20-volume George Orwell: The Complete Works

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Evening Standard

Will the last pub in Britain to close please turn out the lights

George Orwell’s favourite pub is among those under severe threat

Evening Standard

Comment: I don’t care how much you paid for your home, my pub was here first

Hospitality is struggling after Covid, the last thing they need now is a burst of Nimbyism

The Conversation

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.”

Los Angeles Times

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.

The Independent UK

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 Conversation

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 Guardian - UK

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

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