Stephen Fothergill – Stephen Fothergill

What Is Psychodystopia?

I started higher education very late in life, graduating in 2014 aged sixty-two. Since then I have completed an MA, […]

George Orwell passed away sixty-five years ago today. He died alone in his room on the fourth floor of UCLH’s

My ‘Photoshopped’ version of the well-known photograph of Orwell, with his Remington replaced by an Apple. I’m completely misguided, of

As a follow-on from my previous post on the subject of Orwell’s ‘blog’, I decided to post George’s brilliant As

I have been reading Orwell’s As I Please columns from when he was at The Tribune in the early 1940s.

As a regular feature, starting today I’m going to post instances of totalitarian (Soviet, mostly) mis-information that corresponds with “Newspeak’

Continuing from my most recent post on the subject (yet again, some might say!) of Orwell’s stay in Sheffield in

In his diary entry for 3 March 1936, George Orwell writes “In the evening was taken to a Methodist Church

I did it… I graduated! A BA in English Literature with Creative Writing. And then I spent the summer working

Tesco is not a supermarket, it’s a superracket. The store near Watford’s town centre has just been refurbished. According to