Richard Haugh/BBC The artist Pure Evil has painted a mural at the entrance to Southwold's pier celebrating George Orwell Mr Blair spoke as a new biography on Orwell by Norwich writer and novelist ...

George Orwell’s political thinking was dramatically shaped while fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Thanks to the influence of the Soviet Union, the Republican side spent a lot of time fighting ...

The winners own the emotional power of a word or phrase. The others find themselves on the defensive and have to use less ...

Shortly before he died George Orwell asked that no one write his biography. Though much of his writing, even fiction, had been autobiographical, he valued privacy most of all the English virtues ...