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Smart wearables challenge UK privacy laws through invisible surveillance

Are UK privacy laws prepared for the challenge of invisible smart wearable surveillance?

TechRadar

Transcription by Ben Lerner wins Orwell prize for political fiction

Judging chair calls Lerner’s novel a ‘funny, brainy and timely’ study of our appetite for technology, while Karen Bartlett wins the nonfiction prize for The Escape from Kabul

The Guardian - UK

What links a 1982 Prince song and a 1949 Orwell novel? The Saturday Quiz

From early English and perpendicular to Deal or No Deal Nigeria, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

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40 Years Ago, The Most Underrated Sci-Fi Masterpiece Predicted A Tragic Future

Only 'Brazil' knew how hopelessly humorous our present-day dystopia would be.

Inverse

Freezing Point by Anders Bodelsen review – a prescient classic of cryogenics

This resurrected Danish novel about a man who is ‘frozen down’, awaking in an Orwellian dystopia two decades later, is inventive, funny and all too timely

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s not just a book, it’s a window to my soul’: why we’re in love with literary angst

Why did an obscure Dostoevsky novella sell 100,000 copies in the UK last year? And why are TikTokers raving about a 1943 Turkish novel? The way young people are discovering books is changing – and their literary tastes reflect our times

The Guardian - UK

Person’s Experience With AI During Job Interview Signals Dystopian Recruitment Hell Is Here

Is this the beginning of what Orwell And Huxley warned us about?

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An Orwell movie for Orwellian times - Roll Call

Jason Dick talks with filmmaker Raoul Peck about his documentary “Orwell: 2+2=5,” the importance of stepping back from the news cycle to keep things in context and how degrading language leads to degrading humanity. Show Notes:

Roll Call

Starmer pays tribute to Andrew Norfolk, who exposed child sexual abuse scandal

Investigation by reporter, who has died aged 60, led to findings that 1,400 children were abused over 16-year period

The Guardian - UK

The Orwell Prize: London Standard's David Cohen shortlisted for shining spotlight on homelessness

Judges for The Orwell Prize said they were “highly impressed by David’s dedicated commitment and the well-researched focus on timely challenges”

Evening Standard

The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – chapter and verse as a weapon of war

A gripping study of the CIA smuggling operation to get banned books behind the iron curtain

The Guardian - UK

Andrew O’Hagan: ‘A kind of Dickens and Zola energy was pulsing’

The author and journalist on ‘modern London corruption’ and his Orwell prize-shortlisted novel Caledonian Road, how he helped Jonathan Franzen and the last book he gave as a gift

The Guardian - UK

40 Years Ago, The Most Important Dystopian Thriller Ever Got A Powerful Adaptation

With everything from political scandals to Twitch bans dubbed Orwellian, now's a good time to look back on what '1984' is actually about.

Inverse

I've experienced anti-Scottish prejudice. It should be dealt with more seriously

UNIVERSITIES should go beyond simply issuing “guidance” in a bid to stamp down on anti-Scottish and anti-working class behaviour – and instead…

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Lissa Evans: ‘Charlotte’s Web had me beside myself with rage and disbelief’

The author on being emotionally battered by EB White’s children’s classic, comforted by Annie Proulx and falling in love with Middlemarch on her third attempt

The Independent UK

Council approves sound-recording CCTV to tackle antisocial behaviour

Uttlesford District Council has passed a new CCTV policy which includes the potential for audio surveillance - but is accused of ‘bringing Orwell’s Big Brother to Essex’

The National (Scotland)

'Irresponsible': Boris Johnson panned for comparing UK with 'Orwell's 1984'

BORIS Johnson is facing criticism for his latest column in the Daily Mail, in which he claims Britain is now “twinned with Orwell’s 1984”...

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‘Somewhere between Orwell and Kafka’: Hungary closes in on its media

The country’s new sovereignty protection office was set up to quieten anti-government voices, critics say

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'Censored' design might be the internet's favourite book cover

A design befitting Orwell's literary classic.

Salon

"The Bear" sells us on Orwellian butter

Apparently Carmy has a thing for butter that sells for $60 a pound. We had to know whether the hype was real

The Guardian - UK

Hisham Matar wins Orwell prize for political fiction

The Pulitzer winner’s third novel My Friends is based on an event from 1984, when officials opened fire on protesters at the Libyan embassy in London

The Guardian - UK

Can’t get you out of my head: why pop culture is still under Kafka’s spell

A century on from the author’s death, the word ‘kafkaesque’ has survived wrangles over his estate, calls for its banishment and being used on the Simpsons and misused as a meme. How did it gain such a hold over culture?

The Independent UK

Food inflation might have fallen but will the cost of eating out ever go down?

While a drop in food inflation might be welcome in the weekly supermarket shop, what does it mean for the cost of eating out? Hannah Twiggs speaks to the restaurateurs surviving against the odds who say it’s more complicated than you might think

The Guardian - UK

Three Burials by Anders Lustgarten review – a madcap satire on the refugee crisis

A nurse battles to give a dead Somali refugee a dignified burial as the English police set out to retrieve his body and cover up their crime

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Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story by Caroline Lucas review – the Green MP’s alternative vision

The Green party politician offers ways in which we might express an English identity that would lead to a more inclusive and progressive land

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