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'The Last Right-Wing Intellectual …' 

'THE LAST RIGHT-WING INTELLECTUAL ...' Orwell called T. E. Lawrence; not a bad epithet Coming from him, although a far cry From...

TV WEEK'S HOTLIST OF… Banned classics 

1 Animal Farm: George Orwell Since its publication in 1945, this book about revolution is regularly found on lists of banned books. It was...

Weekend's Hotlist Of… 

Banned classics 1

Animal Farm: George Orwell Since its publication in 1945, this book about revolution is regularly found on the list...

UK's Muse puts up a spirited `Resistance' 

Byline: Craig S. Semon

COLUMN: TRACKS

"The Resistance"

Muse (Warner Brothers)

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100 years on 

In Competition No. 2612 you were invited to provide an extract from an issue of The Spectator from the year 2109. Back in the mid-1950s...

pounds 1,000 FINE FOR ARENA TICKET TOUT 

A TOUT who sold tickets for a Girls Aloud concert has been fined the maximum penalty of pounds 1,000.

Anthony Hennessey, of Orwell...

Poverty deters from 5-a-day 

Sir, With regards to the Defra round table debate on s-a-day (The Grocer, 8 August, p30), many people in deprived areas lack access to NHS...

There was no faulting head-turner Rosanna; TALK OF THE TOWN AT THE HORSE SHOW 

Byline: EDITED BY JAMES GIBBONS

IT MAY have only been the first day of the Dublin Horse Show, but Rosanna Purcell set the bar pretty...

Amazon sued over deleted Orwell books 

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Amazon.com, which apologized last week for remotely deleting books by George Orwell from its Kindle electronic readers, is...

Eleven steps to heaven and "a nice cup of tea": George Orwell's advice for brewing the best possible cup of tea.(Tea Consumption)(Book review) 

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One of the most fascinating things about tea is its ability to be talked about with reverence by well-known people as...