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'Stolen generation': Tibet's fight to preserve culture

Tibetan leader Penpa Tsering says the situation there resembles George Orwell's 1984 where citizens have been surveilled and culture has been suppressed.

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Dictatorship? How Hitler, Stalin and Trump show it’s easier than you think

Andrea Chalupa discusses her graphic novel, co-authored with Sarah Kendzior, about authoritarianism and its dangers

The Guardian - US

Gary Shteyngart: ‘Orwell made dictatorships seem a lot less sexy’

The Soviet-born novelist on rewriting the Torah, learning from Judy Blume, and why Vladimir Nabokov is ‘yum’

The Guardian - UK

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Animal Farm has been translated into Shona – why a group of Zimbabwean writers undertook the task

Since independence in 1980, Zimbabwe has in some ways become like Animal Farm. Like the pigs in the classic 1945 novel by English writer George Orwell, the country’s post-liberation leaders have hijacked a revolution that was once rooted in righteous outrage. In Zimbabwe, the revolution was against colonialism and its…

The Conversation

You Need to Watch the Most Chilling Sci-Fi Dystopia On Amazon Prime ASAP

Remember, you’re always being watched.

Inverse

An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals by Polly Toynbee review – the genes, the dreams

In this heartfelt memoir, the columnist considers how a century-long commitment to human improvement inspired her family

The Guardian - UK

Daniel Kaluuya talks putting himself into Spider-Punk for Across The Spider-Verse

EXCLUSIVE: Kaluuya tells us about becoming the new fan-favorite Spidey

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Orwell by DJ Taylor review – a very English socialist

George Orwell’s voice comes alive again in a biography drawing on newly discovered letters

The Guardian - UK

Being spied on by NHS is truly sinister with echoes of George Orwell's 1984

Can a public body sink any lower? Who else are they monitoring? The families of other children who died or became seriously ill and whose relatives have been brave enough to come forward to the Scottish hospitals inquiry?

Daily Record

'Terrifying' AI tech will soon be able to read your mind

Recent breakthrough saw researchers 'read' someone’s thoughts as a continuous flow of text

Wales Online

MRI scans and AI technology really could read what we're thinking. The implications are terrifying

For the first time, researchers have managed to use GPT1, precursor to the AI chatbot ChatGPT, to translate MRI imagery into text in an effort to understand what someone is thinking.

The Conversation

Jimi Famurewa reviews Tiella: Punk rock Pugliese cooking from the back of a 19th century boozer

This rugged Italian kitchen at George Orwell’s favourite pub is a brilliant piece of new wave dining

Evening Standard

40 best books to read before you die, from Wolf Hall to Wuthering Heights

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

The Independent UK

Is Ange Postecoglou's seismic MDC shift the secret behind Celtic's treble charge?

IT seems impossible in an era when football managers are subjected to more intense scrutiny than Winston Smith was in the dystopian George Orwell…

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Crikey

‘Rapid unscheduled disassembly’: a potted history of great political euphemisms

Following the ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly’ of SpaceX’s Starship rocket, Crikey looks at the great political euphemisms of history.

The Week

Smart Motorways: a U-turn too late?

In one of his essays, George Orwell pilloried the use of “political language” – consisting “largely of euphemism, question begging and sheer cloudy vagueness”, said Leo McKinstry in the Daily Express.

The Guardian - UK

What modelling King Charles’s head taught me about very public portraits – and sovereignty itself

I’ve sculpted figures from Mary Seacole to George Orwell, but a 9.6m-strong test run of my latest image is art on a whole new scale, says sculptor Martin Jennings

Bangkok Post

Lots of promises as big day approaches

With the Great Event, otherwise known as election day, just around the corner, like most countries in the world we will have to brace ourselves for regular helpings of political poppycock including plenty of promises from prospective candidates. Still, it could be fun.

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The Guardian - UK

Two sides to a story: why feminist retellings are filling our bookshelves

From Nineteen Eighty-Four’s Julia to Shakespeare’s Rosaline, the trend for a new perspective on a familiar tale is continuing apace. Authors and publishers explain what old stories tell us about today

The Conversation

Christopher Hitchens was a model of the public intellectual as celebrity. Could he really be the saviour of the Left?

Future generations are very unlikely to credit Christopher Hitchens with saving the Left. Nor is he likely to be remembered as a great essayist like his long-time hero George Orwell, or even H.L. Mencken, after whom he named his 20-year column for The Nation magazine.

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Margaret Atwood's 'Old Babes in the Wood' tackles what it means to be human

Margaret Atwood's first collection of short stories in almost a decade is a dazzling mixture of tales showcasing her imagination and humor — and exploring everything from love to the afterlife.

Wales Online

The full list of BBC colleagues and celebrities supporting Gary Lineker

The broadcaster is reportedly set to make an apology to the presenter

Bristol Post

Carol Vorderman shares support for Gary Lineker amid BBC row

The star has taken to Twitter to share a clip which she has urged people to watch

Liverpool Echo

Carol Vorderman destroys the BBC's Gary Lineker debate with ironic discovery

Carol found an interesting quote on the BBC's turf

The Guardian - UK

Margaret Atwood: ‘It would be fun to talk to Simone de Beauvoir’

The author on being banned in Virginia, communicating with dead writers and her new short story collection, the first since the death of her partner

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