In 1972 her friend Sonia Orwell ... Once restored, it was George Melly’s preferred home, where he pursued his passion for fly-fishing. In 1982 Diana Melly was raided by the drugs squad and ...

Marianne Faithfull, a British singer-songwriter and 1960s pop star who reinvented herself as a new-wave artist and ...

The widespread insistence that the gesture must have been something other than a Nazi salute brings to mind George Orwell’s famous words from 1984 ... or you believe you may have witnessed a raid, the ...

When her own residence was raided by the CBI ... isolate, and silence. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four provides a chillingly accurate analogy to their modus operandi.

A George Orwell book checked out of a library in the United Kingdom 50 years ago was finally returned by a mortified borrower. The hard-cover book of George Orwell’s “Road to Wigan Pier” was ...

Eric Arthur Blair, universally known as George Orwell, the genius behind the thought-provoking allegory Animal Farm, was born on June 25, 1903. What may surprise some is that this literary maestro ...

I was suddenly struck by the phrase “George Orwell was right,” referring to his seminal novel “1984.” So, I Googled to see if anyone else had the same idea and, if so, what they had to say.

THAT great patriot and visionary author George Orwell once wrote, “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful ...

75 years on, here’s all the ways the 1984 author’s legacy has been abused Seventy-five years after his death on January 21 1950, George Orwell is still used – and abused – as if he were ...

And chatter among the aristocracy, recorded by George Orwell in his own diary in June ... state of health and it might well be that she was being brought in on a stretcher in order to avoid ...

Catholicism gave English literature something it needs to rediscover.

The hard-backed copy of George Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier was supposed to be back at Hull's Central Library in 1974. Katie Holdstock, from the city's libraries service, said the book would not be ...