Orwell conjured up the ultimate dictatorship to illustrate how anti-democratic leaders use brazen deceit to prove and magnify their power, writes his biographer Dorian Lynskey. Never has his warnings ...

Socialism seeks to overcome the greed ... Winston’s arrest occurs immediately after this episode. But Orwell shows the reader the proles alone are not a real alternative to totalitarianism ...

Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on 25 June ... An anarchist in the late 1920s, by the 1930s he had begun to consider himself a socialist. In 1936, he was commissioned to write an account of ...

A self-proclaimed democratic socialist and a humanist, Orwell was among those calling for a charter on human rights after World War Two. This came into being in December 1948 (six months before ...

Along with Orwell’s chilling dystopian novel 1984, Animal Farm was widely promoted by the CIA as part of Cold War propaganda about the dangers of socialism. However, Orwell was clear that the ...

The topic before the house: Orwell’s Century. This week on Think Tank. From the far ends of the British Empire to the heart of European conflict, from Imperialism and Fascism to Socialism and ...

Colin Burrow joins Tom to unpick the cultural conservatism and crackling violence underpinning Orwell’s writing, to reassess his vision of socialism and to figure out why teenagers love him so much.

Orwell is a staple in English classrooms and lecture theatres across the UK, with his works sparking discourse truth, freedom and democratic socialism. Alongside novels, Orwell also wrote poems ...