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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shortly after Donald Trump was inaugurated as president of the United States in January 2017, George Orwell’s 1949 novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” shot to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list. Apparently, ...

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

Hans K Clausen is behind the scheme to build a library Efforts are under way to establish a library dedicated to George ... 200 - was Orwell’s home towards the end of his life while he wrote ...

An assistant principal at Dapto High School, Darcy Moore runs his own online George Orwell studies blog with original articles uncovering previously unknown aspects of the author's life.