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State Funeral for Mrs Thatcher?

Alzheimer’s Disease is a terrible affliction, and I wouldn’t wish it upon anyone. The sight of eighty-seven year-old Margaret Thatcher […]

My momentous first day at UEA was spoiled somewhat by getting caught speeding en-route from Hertfordshire to Norwich, and to

The above image shows London’s ‘old’ Royal Exchange, which was destroyed by fire in 1838. It is the second of

Once again I find it necessary to apologize for failing to post any updates to Beyond 1984 since last July.

I laughed out loud when I read the other day that 1980s Conservative back-benchers had the nickname ‘Daggers’ for their

There is an article in today’s Times resulting from a letter to the paper from the celebrity chefs Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

The lambasting of HSBC by the US Senate Sub-committee on Investigations drives yet another nail into the coffin of the

Orwell Trivia No.2 As a director of the renowned publishers Faber & Faber, T S Eliot was regarded as ‘a

No.1 in a series of posts on Orwell trivia. “George Orwell came into being on Thursday 8 January 1933, the

According to Orwell’s diaries (as edited by Peter Davison), he spent the early part of July 1942 in Worcestershire while