"..“The threat is here; the time Orwell warned about is now.”
It never ceases to amaze & terrify me that in under 80 years, less than a human lifetime, we have allowed the putrid, lethal stench of fascism to return.
In the countries that destroyed it, in those that were destroyed by it, & in many others seemingly inspired by it.
And the populists will exploit the looming disaster of climate change to stoke hatred for their own narrow, short-term power & profit.."
‘Orwellian’ is an accusation increasingly levelled by both right and left but what does it mean, asks author Sandra Newman, who has reimagined Orwell’s novel – and why does Orwell’s dysto...