Trump, Smithsonian and Orwellian
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If there is any silver lining to the Trump years—and I am not in the habit of searching for one—it may be this: the president and his
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Trump's efforts to secure a Nobel Peace Prize are Orwellian
Trump is lobbying for a Nobel Peace Prize even while rolling out the red carpet for Putin and backing genocide in Gaza. It's surreal.
But it’s Orwellian in a place like Oregon to say, ‘If you gather in numbers more than six, we might come to your house and arrest you, and you get 30 days of jail time.’
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‘Trump’s sanitising history for his own power – we’ve moved beyond an Orwellian world’
What Trump is doing looks like a pretty naked attempt at sanitising history in order to maximise his own power.’ If Trump’s attempt to change how the Smithsonian tells the story of America is successful,
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Al Jazeera on MSNIsrael’s starvation denial is an Orwellian farce
The Israeli ‘hasbara’ cannot disprove the obvious, but it can obfuscate and exhaust.
David Mackenzie's new thriller "Relay" is a fun, modern take on Orwellian surveillance that's almost perfect. Starring Riz Ahmed and Lily James.
Oklahoma’s far-right schools chief, Ryan Walters, has officially rolled out an Orwellian obstacle for teachers who come to his state from California and New York
A football steward has won an £8,000 payout after he was wrongly sacked for sending memes about politicians under his club’s “Orwellian” disciplinary policy. Gennaro Romano, 49, was sacked by Norwich City Football Club in October 2023 after sending mocked-up images of Diane Abbott and Nicola Sturgeon alongside comments about Russell Brand to the head of the academy.