George Orwell
We’re all thought criminals now
If someone is accused of being racist or transphobic they are rarely given a chance to defend themselves
Is this the end of history?
George Floyd was a pretext, not a cause. The cause was destruction of our civilization
Society isn’t systemically racist. It is systemically woke
All this ‘structural’ talk isn’t just wrong; it is dishonest
America is socialist, dummy
Let us count the ways...
Finding the Lost Girls
D.J. Taylor tracks down the proofreaders and heartbreakers who were the toast of Blitz-era London
Wells farrago: gaslighting the Invisible Man
Priapic shower-stalking and domestic haunting were never Wells’s style – not on the page, anyway
George Orwell would have been a Brexiteer
What Orwell would have disapproved of is the Maoist climate of intolerance sweeping through our institutions
Was this journalist sacked for saying ‘sex is binary’?
When I look at the way journalism sometimes deals with trans issues, I worry
What would Orwell have made of Trump?
More attention should be paid to his collected essays, letters and journalism
Novel explosives of the Cold War
Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War by Duncan White reviewed
China’s surveillance technology is terrifying
Everything we do and say can now be monitored and stored for future reference
Nineteen Eighty-Four is not a guidebook for the present day
A powerful totalitarian state is no longer needed to coerce human beings
How does today’s world compare with Orwell’s nightmare vision?
The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four by Dorian Lynskey reviewed
The problem with the new Animal Farm
Four legs good, two films bad?
Brave New World Revisited, revisited
We’ve grown increasingly obsessed with dystopian narratives since 2016. But why do we look to Orwell’s vision when Huxley’s rings truer?
