While most of us know George Orwell as an authoritative critic of totalitarianism, few people know he was a committed ...

Christopher Hollis' Study of George Orwell, suggests to me that Orwell's request may have been well-founded. Hollis finds in Orwell's work a basically Christian figure whose life "only makes sense ...

George Orwell died in 1950 ... For contrast, consider the work of G K Chesterton. I agree with the Catholic apologist on fairly little, and yet the man could write; his concision and wit have ...

George Orwell’s political thinking was dramatically ... writing of history by the Ministry of Truth, where Winston Smith works. The resonance of this is felt today with continuing anxiety ...

The George Orwell statue has been unveiled outside BBC ... But Orwell didn't even work at Broadcasting House. When, aged 38, he became a talks assistant in the Overseas Empire Department and ...

George Orwell famously argued that clear language in politics can be a bulwark against oppression. But in the Trump era, his solution no longer holds.

Radio 4 presents a journey through the life and work of George Orwell, running from late January 2013. Of course there is no real George Orwell – it was the pen name of Eric Blair – but he was ...

An Australian teacher is the winner of the Orwell Society's Peter Davidson Award in recognition of "outstanding ability and ...

George Orwell might have a sense of "deja vu" about ... He added: "In terms of improving our understanding of Orwell's work, I suspect his letters to Eleanor reminiscing about their country ...

George Orwell, who wrote about war, totalitarianism, nationalism and patriotism in the 1940s, would have had a lot to say about Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric.