George Orwell
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
The making of a modern prophet
Taylor’s impressive second biography of Orwell is more than justified
Orwell, Camus and truth
On honesty as an attitude
Beware the thought police
Britain is now a country where you can be arrested for what’s in your head
A thoughtful old-fashioned rambler
George Orwell’s gardening prowess comes as a surprise
Right requires Might
Rules mean nothing without the means to enforce them
Netspeak
How we can — and must — win the war on language
Orwell: my self-help guru
Slavery should be reinstated so that it can be abolished by a queer woman of colour
The road to Hartlepool pier
The bourgeoisification of Labour isn’t new. It was catalogued in Orwell’s scabrously entertaining dissection of socialism
Our very British brand of totalitarianism
While sales of “1984” went through the roof this past year, Aldous Huxley’s dystopian vision is much more likely to come true than George Orwell’s
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Good, mostly clean, fun
The Boys from Syracuse, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
A nuclear nothing?
Is Russia’s new nuclear doctrine hot air, or an explosive new factor in world affairs?
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Keir’s junk politics
Keir Starmer is trying to reform the public, not the NHS
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Alive and flicking
A game invented by a man named Adolph might have been a hard sell to the British public, but it was an instant hit
The half-forgotten promise of the Jubilee Line
The London Underground line points the way towards a better future
