A statue of George Orwell, author of the dystopian ‘1984’, will soon be erected outside the BBC’s London headquarters, despite his resignation from the broadcaster in 1943 when he grew tired of “pushing propaganda” With a cigarette in hand Mr Orwell will soon take up position among the fellow smokers lurking outside the new main entrance of the BBC HQ. Orwell, real name Eric Blair, will be accompanied by a plaque that reads: “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear” The Guardian reports: Four years after the BBC rejected the proposal to provide a site to commemorate one of its most contrarian former employees, it is welcoming him back and applying for planning permission from Westminster council. Orwell died in 1950, but there is no public statue of one of the 20th century’s most famous British writers, whose works include Animal Farm, Homage to Catalonia, The Road to Wigan Pier, 1984 and journalism such as his famous essay on how to make the perfect cup of tea. Soon there will be two, as his old school, Eton, has not only put up a sizeable chunk of the five-figure [...]