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...“So Mr Orwell was right,” sighs Nike marketing chief Rob Strasser (Jason Bateman): his gloom triggered by limp annual sales projections....
...Jonathan Watkins gives physical expression to the dystopian grind of Orwell’s novel with clever use of video and a strong central performance from Tobias Batley....
...“Every joke is a tiny revolution,” wrote George Orwell in his 1945 essay “Funny, but not Vulgar”, and you want to agree — but what to do when the politicians are laughing along?...
...(There were obvious echoes of Emmanuel Goldstein, the Party’s enemy in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.) Finkelstein, though Jewish himself, used anti-Semitic tropes against Soros....
...As Orwell said, to think clearly we need to speak clearly. That matters as we struggle to comprehend our baffling times....
...For Orwell’s generation the only answer was to fight for its values....
...On another front, emails obtained by BuzzFeed suggest Mr Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon sought to spy on Facebook’s job application process....
...Scientists are flummoxed by a strip of light in the night sky and are calling it “Steve” until they work it out....
...Her comment helped catapult Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell’s novel about a dystopian world where the regime engages in “doublespeak”, to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list....
...As Orwell also discovered, people don’t like it when you leave the tribe, and I have certainly lost a few friends as a result....
...And our literature is full of talking animals, from George Orwell’s vile pigs to AA Milne’s Pooh Bear and Kenneth Grahame’s Ratty, Mole and Toad. The tradition grew with television....
...almeida.co.uk, 020 7359 4404, runs to July 18 … Temple, Donmar Warehouse, London Simon Russell Beale is in superb form as the tormented dean of St Paul’s Cathedral in Steve Waters’ gripping, fictional...
...One BBC journalist had suggested that Britain could be heading back to the time of George Orwell’s “Road to Wigan Pier”, an account of gruelling poverty in the north-west....
...Aldous Huxley and George Orwell’s dystopian imaginings did not consign them to a literary ghetto, for example; and historical novels, once the embarrassing be-ruffed cousin of modernist fiction, have now...
...Think of Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg or Peter Thiel. It is also linked to the bigger concept of creative destruction, whereby the old dies in order to make way for the new....
...The contents of a wide wooden bookshelf hint at his eclectic tastes: the collected essays and journalism of George Orwell is next to Autobiography of a Yogi, for example....
...“I identify with the ancient nation of Shakespeare and Dickens and Orwell and, for that matter, Linton Kwesi Johnson, the Specials, Zadie Smith and Steve McQueen,” writes the novelist Tim Lott....
...When George Orwell wrote about the News of the World in 1946, its selling point was grisly murders....
...This debating tendency goes way beyond absurdities such as the American presidential candidate Michele Bachmann comparing the US’s debt crisis to the Holocaust, or the private-equity mogul Steve Schwarzman...
...Peter Kay, Michael McIntyre, and Lee Evans vied to break attendance and DVD sale records, while the tyranny of the TV panel game was Orwell’s dystopian vision made flesh – Stephen Fry’s boot stamping on...
...Unusually, the group’s work is to be overseen by a board co-chaired by both Steve Hilton and Gus O’Donnell, cabinet secretary....
...Is this what Saatchi is referring to by titling his show after a reference in George Orwell’s 1984, where Newspeak is “the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year”?...
...In 1977, a 21-year-old Steve Jobs unveiled something the world had never seen before: a ready-to-program personal computer....
...Watch them go Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls are even more indelibly associated with Wigan than George Orwell....
...Springsteen prefaced it by talking about “Orwellian times that would have surprised George Orwell”, clearly in reference to the Bush administration....
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