Orwellian

With an album of widescreen melancholy pop Manic Street Preachers let light (and love) in. My first Manics album was 1998’s This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, bought when I was 15, it had a pervasive melancholy and great sense of yearning…

George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four just turned 70 years old. It was, and still is, the definitive dystopian novel, a horrifying vision of life lived under the strict control of a totalitarian government. Big Brother, Thought Crimes, Room…