England in 1949:

Joseph Stalin’s Final Speech

For comparison: Here’s the Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on Joseph Stalin. Notice anything familiar? “Liquidations”, “Purges”, “Totalitarianism”, The Party…

Trafalgar Square Live:

(Trafalgar Square features strongly in Nineteen Eighty-Four – let’s not fool ourselves that some aspects of the novel have not come true! There are millions of webcams in London. There’s barely anywhere you can go without being under surveillance)