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Caliban Shrieks by Jack Hilton review – lost voice of the north

This rediscovered mix of autobiography and ‘artful rant’ – about working-class conditions in the 1930s – is full of energy and comedy

The Guardian - UK

It was expensive and underpowered, but the Apple Macintosh still changed the world

After its hyperbolic, Ridley Scott-directed launch 40 years ago, Apple’s all-in-one computer was a commercial flop. And yet its impact is still being felt

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Generals like Shapps because he was not a soldier

By any Whitehall standard, the Ministry of Defence is a weird place. I am not just referring to its forbidding architectural lines, partly Orwell’s 1984 Ministry of Truth and Harry Potter’s Hogwarts, but its very nature. It is a hybrid, a frontline Whitehall ministry and an active military headquarters.

Evening Standard

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OPINION - How can we have a proper debate when we no longer speak the same language?

In the culture wars, hypersensitivity and accusations of ‘hate’ risk leading us into an Orwellian future

Evening Standard

Wifedom by Anna Funder review – a brilliant reckoning with George Orwell to change the way you read

Blending forensic research, fiction, life writing and criticism, Funder upends the legacy of literary triumph to reveal the woman behind it

The Guardian - AU

Shadows of the fascist past in a terrifying present

‘MOST English critics, apart from publishers’ touts who review novels in the Sunday papers, are much keener to prevent one from enjoying the…

The National (Scotland)

Two debut books win Orwell prizes for political writing

Peter Apps’ magnificent account of the Grenfell fire tragedy and Tom Crewe’s historical novel about pioneering Victorian gay rights advocates will each receive £3,000

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Hafta letters: Orwell’s 1984, bigotry, audio interviews

There appears to be a deliberate attempt to tar only the majority community in your podcast. This is especially true of one senior panelist from whom I have yet to get one adverse comment on the minority community's provocation in riots. I wish this position is corrected and fair debate…

Newslaundry

Melvyn Bragg: ‘At 83, time goes round too quickly’

The broadcaster and writer on revisiting childhood for his nostalgic memoir, the genius of George Orwell, and his love of dancing

The Guardian - UK

Florida is now a laboratory for fascism

There is a very specific reason why Gov. Ron DeSantis targeted African-American history for erasure

Salon

Editorial: Florida’s high court censors fairness, diversity

Words matter for what they represent.

Tribune News Service

What is behind Ron DeSantis’s Stop-Woke Act?

The strategy behind this Republican battle is to fight off the federal state until they have re-established federal power themselves

The Guardian - US

Designer cat who had leg amputated after falling from Scots tower block has happy ending

Sadly, Orwell - who has now been renamed Jura - had completely broken his front leg and had to have it amputated.

Daily Record

The best fiction of 2022: NoViolet Bulawayo's Glory found new ways to write about violence and peace

A young woman learning to love, the children inspired by her, and the collective voice of a village community recovering from violence and corruption assemble a powerful message of resistance. The hope is to create “the kind of glory that burns eternal and glows with living light”. Glory by NoViolet…

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The Guardian - UK

1984: was the year quite as awful as George Orwell predicted?

Big Brother wasn’t watching you, but there was the IRA Brighton bombing, famine in Africa and the miners’ strike to think about

Chicago Sun-Times

Queen Elizabeth II played the hand she was dealt

So her ancestors caused mine to die of famine. Nothing she personally could have done about it.

Reason

Orwell in Argentina

Dark clouds are gathering in Buenos Aires.

The Guardian - UK

Poison pens: leading writers call for overhaul of UK’s Society of Authors

Literary world riven by conflict as trade union is accused of inappropriately taking sides in culture war

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Los Angeles Times

'Not even Orwell could have dreamed up a country like this': Journalists forced to flee Nicaragua

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — On Father's Day of last year, Octavio Enríquez shared pizza and soda with his two children. Then he told them he was leaving.

The Guardian - UK

Claire Keegan wins Orwell prize for novel about 1980s Ireland

Small Things Like These takes the political fiction award, while Sally Hayden’s My Fourth Time, We Drowned takes the matching nonfiction honour

The Guardian - UK

Dominic Cummings attempts career reboot as political speaker

Ex-adviser to Boris Johnson holds forth about his hero Otto von Bismarck at Orwell Festival of Political Writing

The Guardian - UK

The book that tore publishing apart: ‘Harm has been done, and now everyone’s afraid’

Kate Clanchy’s memoir about teaching won the Orwell prize. Then, a year later, it became the centre of a storm that would engulf the lives of the author, her critics and dozens of people in the book trade. So what happened?

Nottingham Post

Animal Farm review: Adaptation of Orwell's novel will bring in fans new and old

We review the show, currently running at Nottingham's Theatre Royal

The Guardian - UK

‘Pure Orwell’: how Russian state media spins invasion as liberation

State propaganda mobilised to sooth public’s deep unease over incursion into Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

Kate Clanchy ‘parts company’ with publisher after discrimination row

Author whose Orwell prize-winning Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me sparked online controversy last summer will no longer be published by Pan Macmillan

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