A plan to erect a statue of “1984” author George Orwell in front of BBC’s new Broadcasting House has been shot down by Mark Thompson, the company’s director general. Though Orwell worked as a journalist for BBC during the second World War, Thompson stated that the author is too left-wing a figure for the BBC to honor. The George Orwell Memorial Trust has raised more than £60,000 for the endeavor, and is now in talks with the city of Westminster in hopes to erect the statue close by.

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