Surveillance – the very thing that George Orwell’s Big Brother had warned us against – was being reframed as entertainment. And the participants’ willing submission to being monitored all ...

Watching is important to George Orwell’s Big Brother, to parents, to supervisors, etc. and watchers often become fixers when ...

Big Brother. Even his name has become an adjective: Orwellian. Although Orwell disdained what he called “all the smelly, little orthodoxies,” social critics at many points on the political ...

The title of the series, “Big Brother,” is an overt nod to the all-encompassing surveillance apparatus in George Orwell’s book “1984,” with show contestants living in a home filled with ...

For many, “1984” by George Orwell is one of those books. Its impact on science-fiction and pop culture is far-reaching. “Big ...

George Orwell’s much-loved novel 1984 has been brought to new heights with this intense and captivating piece of theatre, that lets you not ...

Orwell's novel 1984 was the origin of the popular understanding of "Big Brother" and "Room 101". Mr Blair told BBC Politics East: "He would have thought, what's changed?" Richard Haugh/BBC The ...