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After telling us how rubbish everything is, the party searches for something to vaguely look forward to

Australian author Anna Funder talks to Dheepthika Laurent about her latest book "Wifedom", a part-fiction, part non-fiction and part-hybrid novel about Eileen O'Shaughnessy. She was the highly educated wife of George Orwell, who played a pivotal but largely uncredited role in his career. Anna Funder also responds to criticism by…

Are we living in a pre-war rather than a post-war world? This is a legitimate question, given that there are more than 120 armed conflicts worldwide. The International Crisis Group has noted that 2024 began with:

If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy, wrote Orwell. That applies today more than ever

Joe Biden's claims about Gaza are absurd

Businesses are selling off priceless documents piecemeal, after publisher gave the order to ‘get rid of’ them

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British tea culture still has a cachet around the world, and still means something at home.

Political art helps to debate and confront the challenges in our lives. It is also a record we must return to again and again, says Guardian theatre critic Arifa Akbar

Artificial intelligence writes a pretty good analysis of George Orwell's 1984.