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"George Orwell has had a profound influence on modern politics and culture. This book explores his life, his beliefs and why he is increasingly relevant in an era of radical right populism and fake news"--

Substantially revised and updated, this textbook continues to provide the best introduction currently available on the British Political Party system, explaining the history, structure, actors and policies of both the main political parties and the minor parties.

This article sets out to illustrate the value of imaginative literature as a tool of political analysis. It investigates the nature of truth and lies principally through a discussion of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Hannah Arendt's concerns about new forms of political lying provide a platform for a detailed analysis of Orwell's depiction of the struggle between the individual and the state over the nature of reality and truth. We consider the plausibility of the Party's attempt to recreate the truth in its own image, especially through the control of language. Orwell's novel, we shall conclude, stands as a stark warning against allowing civil society to atrophy and the state to subvert ordinary language, thereby destroying the basis of representative government, trust.