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George Orwell is everywhere, but Nineteen Eighty-Four is not a reliable guide to contemporary politics

  • Written by: Chris Fleming, Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
George Orwell is everywhere, but Nineteen Eighty-Four is not a reliable guide to contemporary politicsEric Blair, aka George Orwell, from his Metropolitan Police file c.1940.National Archives UK

In January 2017, Donald Trump’s advisor Kellyanne Conway was quizzed on White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s false claims about the number of attendees at the president’s inauguration. When pressed on why Spicer would “utter a...

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