It’s a label that’s everywhere now: used by political commentators, shared on social media, and increasingly a part of everyday conversation.
In recent months it has been used to describe issues including Indian cricket, Sainsbury’s use of facial recognition, the ‘Dubai Dream’.
But what did George Orwell actually warn us about, and how does our modern world resemble it?
Nick Harris talks to acclaimed Haitian director Raoul Peck, whose latest filmOrwell: 2+2=5revisits Orwell not as a distant, dystopian novelist, but as a deeply political thinker, shaped by his life experience: his birth in colonial India, his immersion in the working class, his wartime struggle against fascism.
