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Jimi Famurewa reviews Tiella: Punk rock Pugliese cooking from the back of a 19th century boozer

This rugged Italian kitchen at George Orwell’s favourite pub is a brilliant piece of new wave dining

Evening Standard

40 best books to read before you die, from Wolf Hall to Wuthering Heights

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

The Independent UK

Is Ange Postecoglou's seismic MDC shift the secret behind Celtic's treble charge?

IT seems impossible in an era when football managers are subjected to more intense scrutiny than Winston Smith was in the dystopian George Orwell…

The National (Scotland)

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Smart Motorways: a U-turn too late?

In one of his essays, George Orwell pilloried the use of “political language” – consisting “largely of euphemism, question begging and sheer cloudy vagueness”, said Leo McKinstry in the Daily Express.

The Week

What modelling King Charles’s head taught me about very public portraits – and sovereignty itself

I’ve sculpted figures from Mary Seacole to George Orwell, but a 9.6m-strong test run of my latest image is art on a whole new scale, says sculptor Martin Jennings

The Guardian - UK

Lots of promises as big day approaches

With the Great Event, otherwise known as election day, just around the corner, like most countries in the world we will have to brace ourselves for regular helpings of political poppycock including plenty of promises from prospective candidates. Still, it could be fun.

Bangkok Post

Two sides to a story: why feminist retellings are filling our bookshelves

From Nineteen Eighty-Four’s Julia to Shakespeare’s Rosaline, the trend for a new perspective on a familiar tale is continuing apace. Authors and publishers explain what old stories tell us about today

The Guardian - UK

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Christopher Hitchens was a model of the public intellectual as celebrity. Could he really be the saviour of the Left?

Future generations are very unlikely to credit Christopher Hitchens with saving the Left. Nor is he likely to be remembered as a great essayist like his long-time hero George Orwell, or even H.L. Mencken, after whom he named his 20-year column for The Nation magazine.

The Conversation

Margaret Atwood's 'Old Babes in the Wood' tackles what it means to be human

Margaret Atwood's first collection of short stories in almost a decade is a dazzling mixture of tales showcasing her imagination and humor — and exploring everything from love to the afterlife.

WEKU

The full list of BBC colleagues and celebrities supporting Gary Lineker

The broadcaster is reportedly set to make an apology to the presenter

Wales Online

Carol Vorderman shares support for Gary Lineker amid BBC row

The star has taken to Twitter to share a clip which she has urged people to watch

Bristol Post

Carol Vorderman destroys the BBC's Gary Lineker debate with ironic discovery

Carol found an interesting quote on the BBC's turf

Liverpool Echo

Margaret Atwood: ‘It would be fun to talk to Simone de Beauvoir’

The author on being banned in Virginia, communicating with dead writers and her new short story collection, the first since the death of her partner

The Guardian - UK

Carol Vorderman weighs in on Gary Lineker row as she makes 'ironic' discovery at BBC HQ

The telly brainbox urged her Twitter followers to watch a video she recorded at the broadcaster's London offices

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Humanities are not dead

According to no less an authority than The New Yorker, that most bookish of large-circulation magazines, the academic study of imaginative literature is in the process of vanishing from American college campuses.

The Independent UK

‘Tucker Carlson took a page from 1984’: Whoopi Goldberg roasts Fox News host over Jan 6 footage scandal

Carlson has faced condemnation for the misleading segment

The Conversation

David Bowie: five must-have items for the V&A's new centre

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has announced the opening of a new David Bowie Centre for the Performing Arts in 2025 at V&A East Storehouse in east London. This follows the news that the museum has acquired – through donation – the artist’s fabled archive.

The Guardian - UK

Feminism taught me all I need to know about men like Trump and Putin

Like all abusive men, dictators seek to control who can speak and which narratives are believed. The only difference is scale, says the US writer Rebecca Solnit

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The Ferguson Report: Irony declared dead as publisher announces ‘sensitivity rewrite’ of 1984

The classic political novel 1984 will be rewritten by Inclusion And Diversity specialists who think they know better than George Orwell.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: The war on 'woke' is meaningless, which is why it’s so popular

Right-wing politicians are on the warpath. They want to banish everything that is, as they call it, “woke.”

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Lawmakers should leave decisions on school curriculum to the teachers

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

Chronicle Live

Blue plaque commemorating South Shields-born writer and wife of George Orwell unveiled in Sunderland

Poet and journalist, Eileen O’Shaughnessy was an Oxford-scholar who went on to marry the renowned author

Chicago Sun-Times

No easy answers with policing

Memphis, beleaguered by soaring homicide rates, drastically lowered recruiting standards for new officers. Their lack of experience was shocking to veterans.

Daily Mirror

Behind Tim Martin's £448million fortune as Wetherspoons' boss named among UK's biggest taxpayers

Tim Martin is the boss behind the iconic pub chain and he's been named among the UK's biggest taxpayers - here's how he started out in life and built his high street empire of 872 pubs

The Independent UK

How George Orwell’s Animal Farm is helping Ukraine 76 years on

Copy first aimed at Ukraine’s Second World War refugees will now aid those fleeing Russian invasion

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