025 '1984'

2025

I was chatting with a friend about re-reading George Orwell’s ‘1984’. She’d recently started to do it, but had to put it down “because it was so grim”. I confessed that back around 2017/2018 I had also tried to re-read it. I’d loved it as a teenager and younger adult, and given what was happening in the UK at the time I thought it might be worth a re-re…