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A Police and Crime Commissioner has been officially reprimanded on Tuesday after speaking out about transgender rapists.

George Orwell’s ‘1984’ has been given a trigger warning by a British university following concerns that students could find it “offensive and upsetting”.

Merriam-Webster changed the definition of “anti-vaxxer” into “a person who opposes the use of vaccines or regulations mandating vaccination.”

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher criticized the “Orwellian” redefinition of words like “hate,” “violence,” “and white supremacy.” Maher said, “George Carlin famously had the seven words you can’t say on TV. Well, here’s my eight

Boris Johnson’s government is claiming to “back freedom of speech to the hilt” even as it moves to prosecute tech bosses who fail to censor “foul content”.

British police want to trawl gun owners’ social media for wrongthink after the Plymouth ‘incel’ shooting. Gosh, what could possibly go wrong?

The New York Times published an essay on Tuesday detailing a range of recommendations for the Biden administration to adopt to fix the “reality crisis.”

Are you sick of 1984 references? I certainly am.

While the Orwell classic is brilliant in many ways, it’s become difficult not to cringe at yet another cliched reference to the Ministry of Truth. The right needs a fresher fictional dystopia.

“It starts with banning words,” said Jocko Willink, warning of totalitarianism in the context of today’s growing digital censorship.

Eton College — the elite school that has educated everyone from the Duke of Wellington and George Orwell to Princes William and Harry and the current Archbishop of Canterbury — has gone woke.

The British Library has added George Orwell, Lord Bryon, Ted Hughes, and others to a list of shame for cultural figures with supposed links to slavery.

David Morey, an informal political consultant for Joe Biden’s campaign, said he was “sympathetic” to Twitter and Facebook as “adjudicators.”

A group of 80 Tory MPs are backing an amendment to the UK’s coronavirus regulations in order to prevent Boris Johnson from imposing “Orwellian” restrictions by decree and return the governance of the UK to the Houses of Parliament. The

The Atlantic’s anonymous hit job on President Trump a sign of Orwellian things to come — particularly if Democrats win in November.

Police Scotland has logged more than 3,300 “hate incidents” in the past five years which were “non-crimes” including telling jokes that some people may have found offensive.

The magazine Psychology Today removed a column on Orwellian language from Rutgers Professor Lee Jussim after it had already been published. The piece mocked the creation of new words that Jussim argues leads to “much discourse, rhetoric, dysfunction, and bias in academia and psychology.”

A British university is paying students to spy on their classmates and report them for any language they deem to be a teeny bit offensive.

In an Orwellian twist of fate, surveillance cameras have been installed at the London gravesite of Karl Marx.

Angela Merkel’s government is preparing a new bill that will force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to hand over data, including passwords, of those accused of engaging in “hate speech” online.

Three cheers for Harry Miller who has been fighting for free speech in the London High Court this week against the increasingly censorious, oppressive, and petty-minded British police over a ‘transphobic’ ‘non-crime hate incident’.

To crash the gates of Washington, Donald Trump had to radically upend the way the game of politics is played. He had to start by changing the language.

This is the anniversary of the greatest moment in the history of the BBC: the heroic ascent of Nelson’s Column in London’s Trafalgar Square by Blue Peter presenter John Noakes.

The Library Journal, which advertises itself as the “most trusted and respected publication for the library community,” appears to be calling for the banning of books it considers guilty of “whiteness.”

You know, nothing proves we’re closer to dystopia more than a massive, multi-national corporation like Netflix attempting to outlaw the term “chick flick,” to put a scarlet letter on speech it doesn’t like.

Alt-left demonstrators descended on the Italian city of Verona Saturday to protest the World Congress of Families, sending the city into a security lockdown.

Men cannot become women. Lena Dunham’s naked body is disgusting. John McCain was not a good man.

French authorities will install tiny microphones in a crime-ridden neighbourhood to listen for suspicious noises and alert police, but residents worry they will be spied on by “Big Brother.”

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU), the first black trade union in Africa, by Clements Kadalie.

Social media users compared the hate hoax against the Covington Catholic high school kids to a passage about “facecrime” from George Orwell’s landmark novel 1984 this week.

George Orwell famously wrote in his essay The Lion and the Unicorn that there’s a certain type of Englishman who loathes and despises his own country.

The EU Parliament has issued politically correct guidance against using words like “mankind” and “man-made” in order to infuse its everyday language with social justice.

After President Trump doubled down on calling himself a “nationalist” Tuesday, CNN went into full attack mode, with cringe-worthy George Orwell quotes read on air, bad history lessons, and comparisons to Hitler. CNN White House reporter Jim Acosta kicked off the

Perhaps the best sign that Trump’s foreign policy is succeeding – or at least promising — is the frothing-at-the-mouth crazy quality of the critiques his foreign policy attracts.

Twitter ‘historian’ Mike Stuchbery, a minor e-celebrity in the small world of online social justice warriors, is celebrating Breitbart London editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam’s suspension from the microblogging site.

Over the last century or two, plenty of seers and scribblers told us that technological advances were a two-edged sword. For all the gains in our standard of living that inventions would bring, so, too, would come dangers—and maybe even more downsides than upsides.

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appeared to misinterpret the message behind George Orwell’s 1984 in her new book What Happened.

The modernized Broadway production arguably serves as a direct repudiation of the postmodern spirit that has incrementally gained control of academia in the United States over the past few decades.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper had a Twitter hiccup Sunday resulting in him having to correct a simple commemoration of the birthday of 1984 and Animal Farm author George Orwell.

The New York Times published an editorial Wednesday evening about the attack on Republicans earlier that day in which it claimed falsely that Sarah Palin incited the 2011 Tucson shooting, and that the killer had political motives.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is mounting a filibuster effort to stop the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch.