FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 13 - The Untold Story

From My Commonplace Book, No. 4

George Orwell on World War I

Reason · Nov 30, 2022

Simon Schama’s History of Now review – this highly personal show is simplistic and outdated

The academic’s look at truth, democracy and art has its heart very much in the right place. But too often it’s fighting old battles rather than grasping the modern reality of untruths

The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2022

TV tonight: Simon Schama meets Pussy Riot in new personal project

The historian also speaks with George Orwell’s son in a new history series. Plus: the chaos continues in SAS Rogue Heroes. Here’s everything ton watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2022

Forgotten story of the BBC's first black radio producer and trailblazer Una Marson

Una Marson and her accolades have finally been reconigised as the BBC premiers a new documentary - Una Marson: Our lost Caribbean Voice - to remember an iconic but often overlooked woman in our history

Daily Mirror · Nov 4, 2022

Ian Jack obituary

Brilliant exponent of long-form journalism, Guardian columnist and editor of the Independent on Sunday in the 1990s

The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2022

Check your ‘privilege’: unpacking the real meaning of the most overused word in politics

Becoming prime minister was ‘the greatest privilege’ of Rishi Sunak’s life. But the phrase loved by both sides of the political spectrum is sometimes a humble brag – and sometimes an insult

The Guardian - UK · Oct 26, 2022

George Orwell’s works to be published soon on email subscription platform Substack

While author George Orwell died in 1950, his works including '1984' and 'Animal Farm' are considered classics and widely read even today. Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair. And now, owing to his popularity with readers, news is that Orwell's works will soon be published on Substack--…

The Times of India · Oct 25, 2022

George Orwell’s classic works to be published on Substack

Down and Out in Paris and London will start the project and be delivered to subscribers in ‘coffee break’ segments

The Guardian - UK · Oct 25, 2022

Una Marson: Our Lost Caribbean Voice review – a beautiful, moving portrait of BBC’s first Black broadcaster

The extraordinary Jamaican poet, playwright, editor and producer became a radio sensation in the 1940s, but her name has been largely lost to history – an injustice this deft documentary is here to remedy

The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2022

Friday essay: George Orwell is everywhere, but Nineteen Eighty-Four is not a reliable guide to contemporary politics

In January 2017, Donald Trump’s advisor Kellyanne Conway was quizzed on White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s false claims about the number of attendees at the president’s inauguration. When pressed on why Spicer would “utter a provable falsehood”, Conway said that Spicer was offering “alternative facts”.

The Conversation · Oct 20, 2022