Nineteen Eighty-Four

Hate speech penalty in proposed Online Harms Law practically introduces “thoughtcrime”

North Macedonia will appoint language proofreaders in official institutions and state bodies to check all materials coming out of them for correct use of the Macedonian language.

This is done by virtue of the Law on the Use of the Macedonian Language, adopted on Friday by the Parliament and signed by President Stevo Pendarovski on Tuesday.

The writer, who died on this day in January 1950 in London, was most famous for two novels which explored totalitarian politics: 1984 and Animal Farm

To remember victims of injustice is the duty of the living, is it not? Memorialising the dead seems like a moral imperative for those of us who live on. An ethical testament to being human.

Increasingly, I hear people saying that we're living in an Orwellian world. Some even say "1984" is already here. Is it?

The Chytirio Theater in the downtown Athens district of Kerameikos is hosting a free screening of Michael Radford's "1984," based on George Orwell's classic novel about a dystopian future under an oppressive regime and released in the same year.

Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz stated in a TV interview last week that "they want to raise a new generations who will go out onto the streets with flags, as in the case of the July 15 coup attempt." It means that we will live under the permanent threat of a coup for many years, meaning that in 20 years' time, we will need people to stop expected atrocities by rushing onto the street with flags