Richard Blair, 80, was adopted by Orwell and his wife after they struggled to conceive naturally. The British writer is ...

One of the most intriguing developments in our current unpredictable political climate has been the Left’s co-opting of George Orwell’s ... It is a warning against socialism, whose inner ...

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 Communism, George Orwell’s writing pierced ...

You can imagine what George Orwell, a crusader for linguistic precision and scourge ... despite his being a proud democratic socialist and anti-fascist. As soon as it was published, Nineteen ...

19. Was George Orwell disappointed in socialism, as so many of his contemporaries were? His nuanced position distinguished between socialism and communism. Fascism — which many others saw as a ...

Orwell, aka Eric Blair, a socialist freedom fighter and a repentant ... that proved the vast scale of NSA spying programs. "George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information ...

George Orwell’s political thinking was dramatically ... “the Party” and their dogma of Ingsoc (English Socialism), and the sinister Thought Police. 2. 1984 is a defence of human rights ...

Of course there is no real George Orwell – it was the pen name of Eric ... ex-Etonian ex-policeman and socialist, who was ardently anti-authoritarian. He was as anti-fascist as he was anti ...

In The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell worried aloud that his coveted socialist agenda would never be realized if its implementation were to remain in the hands of the “prigs.” ...

The dark political fantasy novel introduced a watchful, totalitarian government that Orwell, a democratic socialist, named Big Brother. Construction is set to start later this year on two projects ...