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Human life is very complicated. All of us are constrained by and sometimes hostage to things we cannot easily control or change and might be unwilling to change even if we could. In the new biography of George Orwell's first wife, Eileen, author Anna Funder seems oblivious that factors other than a pernicious patriarchy might have shaped their relationship

We go behind the scenes on the new restoration of a film once reviled, now revered: Michael Powell’s provocative study in voyeurism, Peeping Tom.

When the artist Sarah Kaye Rodden and her family took over a former medieval meeting hall in Kent, they chose to honor its many lives.

But while warning of one kind of “doublethink”, was he blind to another? | Culture

A remembrance of a teacher of literary greatness who studied with Ludwig von Mises and upstaged Johnny Carson.

Orwell is that rare intellectual whose mantle everyone wants to claim.

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If we took the trouble to rid ourselves of bad writing habits, we might think more clearly, “and to think more clearly is a necessary first step towards political regeneration.”

What impact did your father have on you? If you’ve never much thought about it, or discussed it ...

A VIOLENT criminal who threatened former football star Gordon Durie at knifepoint during an attempted car-jacking has been jailed for 40 months.