Orwell Unfiltered
All Souls, the blue riband Oxford graduate college, used to be famous for its fellowship exams. A particular highlight was the General Paper, in which candidates were often presented with a solitary abstract noun ("Hope," "Charity," etc.) or an especially thorny epigram ("Freedom and equality are ultimately incompatible") and invited to "discuss." Well, an All Souls General Paper here in 2026 could usefully begin with the question, "What is meant by the adjective ‘Orwellian’?" The post Orwell U…



