News Round-Up
23 October 2024
by Will Jones
Democrats Are No Longer Hiding Their Plan to Censor America
22 October 2024
by Will Jones
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.
Home Secretary slams virtue signalling belief police: Focus on catching criminals, not silencing debates.
14 year-old Jack Watson writes that sometimes he wishes Orwell did not write 1984, as it seems to have become a manual and not just a novel.
For the incredibly reasonable price of just £20, including P&P, you can buy a Free Speech Union T-shirt with Bob Moran’s famous ‘Orwell Surprised’ cartoon on it. Order now in time for Christmas.
The EU is to start demanding holiday-makers’ biometric data – fingerprints and facial images – at its borders, greatly increasing both the level of surveillance and the length of delays at transport terminals.
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