RARE PHOTOS: 14 | Vintage Vibes

Comment: I don’t care how much you paid for your home, my pub was here first

Hospitality is struggling after Covid, the last thing they need now is a burst of Nimbyism

Evening Standard · Aug 24, 2022

Barilaro report fails to put NSW government integrity crisis to rest

It took George Orwell just one line to describe a political dystopia: “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

The Conversation · Aug 16, 2022

Nicholas Goldberg: Who are you calling a 'fascist' — and do you even know what it means?

Americans know little history and what little they know they forget. Ask college students who won the Civil War or ask adults when the U.S. Constitution was ratified or whom the U.S. fought in World War II and shocking numbers will have no idea.

Los Angeles Times · Aug 9, 2022

Is Britain tiring of the culture wars?

Brexit was supposed to have left the country bitterly divided. But Henry Mance finds identity battles losing their grip on the national conversation

Financial Times · Jul 15, 2022

Brainwashed by Daniel Pick review – do great minds really think alike?

From The Simpsons to QAnon via The Stepford Wives, the psychoanalyst’s absorbing study of mind control is part media studies, part political history

The Guardian - UK · Jun 28, 2022

Ian Rankin and JK Rowling books have opening lines translated into Scots

The Braw Beginnings project has seen the start of a number of popular titles changed into the language.

The Independent UK · Jun 24, 2022

A planet in peril and our embrace of Big Brother: George Orwell would have been shocked

The writer did not foresee the wreckage of the entire global system, or our willing submission to monitoring, says Guardian US columnist Rebecca Solnit

The Guardian - UK · Jun 24, 2022

The 40 best novels to read before you die OLD

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

The Independent UK · Jun 24, 2022

A century of war, fascism and death

Billionaires won't give up on corporate rule. The angry masses embrace fascist demagogues. This won't end well

Salon · Jun 22, 2022

George Orwell's Animal Farm to be published in Scots

The award-winning book has been chosen as one of nine scrips that will be translated in a push to support the Scots language.

Daily Record · Jun 20, 2022