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By any Whitehall standard, the Ministry of Defence is a weird place. I am not just referring to its forbidding architectural lines, partly Orwell’s 1984 Ministry of Truth and Harry Potter’s Hogwarts, but its very nature. It is a hybrid, a frontline Whitehall ministry and an active military headquarters.

In the culture wars, hypersensitivity and accusations of ‘hate’ risk leading us into an Orwellian future

The broadcaster and writer on revisiting childhood for his nostalgic memoir, the genius of George Orwell, and his love of dancing

There is a very specific reason why Gov. Ron DeSantis targeted African-American history for erasure

Words matter for what they represent.

The strategy behind this Republican battle is to fight off the federal state until they have re-established federal power themselves

Sadly, Orwell - who has now been renamed Jura - had completely broken his front leg and had to have it amputated.

A young woman learning to love, the children inspired by her, and the collective voice of a village community recovering from violence and corruption assemble a powerful message of resistance. The hope is to create “the kind of glory that burns eternal and glows with living light”. Glory by NoViolet…

Big Brother wasn’t watching you, but there was the IRA Brighton bombing, famine in Africa and the miners’ strike to think about