To mark the 75th anniversary of the death of George Orwell, Laura Perrins interviews Toby – now Lord Young – about the prospects for free speech in the age of Starmer and Trump.
On the 75th anniversary of Orwell's death, Oscar Evans laments that there is something demoralising about feeling oneself alone in one's country, recognising that we had something special but it is disappearing before us.
When a PhD on the "politics of smell" trended on X recently it exposed how elites use pretentious woke gobbledegook to exclude the people from power, much like previous generations used Latin and Greek, says Steven Tucker.
"Make Orwell Fiction Again!" declared Elon Musk when he heard about Essex Police's disgraceful doorstepping and investigation of award-winning journalist Allison Pearson over a year-old deleted tweet.
George Orwell may be known as a man of the Left, but he would have had a field day with Keir Starmer, says Laurie Wastell. Not only his naked contempt for the proles, but also his torturing of the English language.
George Orwell himself is being cancelled, says Paul Sutton. In a conversation with Oxford Literature postgraduate students, it became clear that the great opponent of authoritarianism was no longer welcome.
Amidst some stiff competition, perhaps the most ill-conceived piece of anti-free speech legislation currently being pushed through in the Western world is Canada’s appalling Online Harms Act, says Steven Tucker.
"These days, you expect something like this to be foisting woke gobbledegook on the audience. But no, this adaptation is faithful and as poignant as ever." Jack Watson enthuses about Animal Farm at Hull New Truck Theatre.
The European Union has been accused of creating Orwellian "ministries of truth" that will ensure wrong thoughts are not allowed in a bid to tackle disinformation online.
Nick Seward was sick of the creep of totalitarianism into everyday life - so he left England and fled to Hong Kong. As a teacher, he now enjoys more freedom than he did back home.
