While most of us know George Orwell as an authoritative critic of totalitarianism, few people know he was a committed ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. George Orwell died in 1950, but he’s in the newspapers nearly every day. In the past few years alone ...

Radio 4 presents a journey through the life and work of George Orwell, running from late January 2013. Of course there is no real George Orwell – it was the pen name of Eric Blair – but he was ...

In spite of his request, the six years since his death have left us three biographies and countless articles about his life. Christopher Hollis' Study of George Orwell, suggests to me that Orwell ...

One of the most intriguing developments in our current unpredictable political climate has been the Left’s co-opting of George Orwell’s dystopian ... the means of life, Hayek observed ...

George Orwell might have a sense of "deja vu" about ... An award-winning writer and critic, Mr Taylor's new biography "Orwell: The New Life" is the first to reveal insights about Orwell from ...

George Orwell escaped to a remote Scottish island ... And whenever his own life comes to an end, he wants his ashes scattered on the Gulf of Corryvreckan. He tells me with a smile: "Corryvreckan ...

Shortly after Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States in January 2017, George Orwell’s 1949 novel ...

John Simpson and Hilary Spurling discuss George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. Duration: 28:00 'It's like watching ten movies about his life.' Joseph Millson on The Real George Orwell dramas Joseph ...

An Australian teacher is the winner of the Orwell Society's Peter Davidson Award in recognition of "outstanding ability and ...

George Orwell is no longer a socialist ... I know why the people in my novel submitted to the telescreens. That could be life or death. I get that. But now? - We do it voluntarily without any ...