Writing about doomed literary loves isn’t really in keeping with the spirit of the day, as everyone loves a happy ever after, but…
George Orwell
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Seeking to rebalance the world and make the major changes needed to bring about financial justice are laudable aims, but rarely achieved…
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On my recent trip back to the UK a great pal asked me what it was about George Orwell that I thought…
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I am sure that you could argue that the world doesn’t really need another writer boring on about the Johann Hari plagiarism…
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Dorothy Parker, LCD Soundsystem, Paul Auster, Bob Dylan, John Coltrane, Jack Kerouac, Jimmy Hendrix, Billie Holiday, Muhammed Ali, MC5, Hunter S. Thompson,…
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If you haven’t read The Road to Wigan Pier yet, now might be a good time to add it to your reading…
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ten minutes hate will be marking the occasion with a dram of Jura and one or many of these.
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US Forces in war zones are not going to be banned from smoking, as the Pentagon is worried that to do so…
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Very excited to read today that Haruki Murakami has revealed some of the inspiration for his new book: Murakami has now admitted…
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So today The Times struck a blow for openness and honesty in public life, with a blistering exposé of… an anonymous detective…