George Orwell
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29 December 1984: The museum stonily ponders whether he will still be topical in 1985
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In the 1930s, thousands of men and women around the world enlisted to fight fascism in Spain. Many survivors went on to play a key role in the fight against the Nazis – but, in some cases, later became powerful servants of brutal regimesPodcast
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Newly unearthed files from Soviet archives document surveillance of the author and his wife who were fighting in civil war
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Letters: Alan Clark says an opinion piece went too far in calling the Last Night of the Proms a supremacist indulgence, while Peter Wrigley is bemused by the strength of public opinion on the matter. Plus Marie Paterson puts the issue into Orwellian perspective
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Orwell’s anti-Stalinist fable has a new life as a computer game. But can you manage the revolutionary animals without them succumbing to dictatorship?
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Letters: Quentin Kopp of The Orwell Society on the writer’s fight for equality and against censorship throughout his life and Roger Fisken on the overreaction that plagues social media
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Ahead of Windrush day, Orwell shortlisted writers Evaristo and Amelia Gentleman talk about politics, art and giving a voice to the powerless
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The API gives firms access to a text generation AI for use in coding and data entry
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What unites golf, fishing, tennis, shopping and going for coffee? The activities are pretty unimportant – but they are a perfect excuse to spend time with others, writes Zoe Williams
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Dorian Lynskey’s The Ministry of Truth is among the contenders for the political writing award named after the dystopian classic’s author
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From Evelyn Waugh to Molesworth, novels set in these places of privilege are microcosmic studies of oppression and rebellion
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This life of George Orwell’s first wife, Eileen, is a dispiriting read with unconvincing arguments about her influence on his work
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Brief letters: Airport coronavirus checks | Johnson in isolation | Public toilets | Orwell’s recipe | Surreal marmalade
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As disregard for the ‘actual truth of the matter’ spreads, what can the author of The Prince tell us about The Donald?
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A new life of George Orwell tries too hard to portray the author as a prophet of our current political woes
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A tranche of letters by the great English writer reveals that his eye often wandered in the direction of a former lover – and that his wife wasn’t entirely against it
Orwell's Animal Farm game review – a clever adaptation, but where's the spirit of rebellion?
3 out of 5 stars.