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

Shortly before he died George Orwell asked that no one write his biography. Though much of his writing, even fiction, had been autobiographical, he valued privacy most of all the English virtues ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. George Orwell died in 1950, but he’s in the newspapers nearly every day. In the past few years alone ...

John Rodden: H.G. Welles called George Orwell that Trotskyist with big feet ... It’s a lesson to anyone who wants to try life in English or Public Affairs or literary matters actually ever ...

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 ...

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.

Shortly after Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States in January 2017, George Orwell’s 1949 ... similar in the attitude of Orwell’s patriot. They may think that their country or ...

Richard Haugh/BBC The artist Pure Evil has painted a mural at the entrance to Southwold's pier celebrating George Orwell Mr Blair spoke as a new biography on Orwell by Norwich writer and novelist ...

The winners own the emotional power of a word or phrase. The others find themselves on the defensive and have to use less ...

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

John Simpson and Hilary Spurling discuss George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. Duration: 28:00 'It's like watching ten movies about his life.' Joseph Millson on The Real George Orwell dramas Joseph ...