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1984

Brighton Bids Farewell to the Iron Lady

Soraya Kishtwari | Posted 18.04.2013 | UK Politics
Read More: 1984, Brighton Grand, Brighton, Iron Lady, John Wakeham, Ice Cream, Norman Tebbit, Margaret Thatcher, Bombing, Cynthia Crawford, Anthony Berry, Ira, UK Conservative Party, David Cameron, UK Politics News
Soraya Kishtwari

We're on the 14:06 train Brighton-bound. Outside the sky is a pallid shade of grey and a handful of snowflakes begin to float down. Spring is nowhere to be seen.

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Premium Travel in...Jura, Scotland

Raj Gill | Posted 05.02.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: A Question of Blood, 1984, Jura, George Orwell, Islay, Halloween, The Paps, Campbell's of Jura, Glasgow Internaltional, Strait Corryvreckan, Beinn a'Chaolais, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Beinn an Oir, Jura Lodge, Paps of Jura, Ian Rankin, Mountain of Gold, Jura Pub, Mountain of the Sound, William McTaggart, Sacred Mountain, Jura Distillery, Beinn Shiantaidh, Barnhill, Corryvreckan, Craighhouse, Scarba, Travel, UK Lifestyle News
Raj Gill

First stop the Jura Lodge to drop off our luggage and to freshen up. The Lodge is part of the distillery, and is housed over to the side of it. The first floor has four double bedrooms, and the second floor has an open plan kitchen with lounge area, and a private lounge off to the side.

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Israel, Let Kafka Go!

Benjamin Lazarus | Posted 07.09.2012 | Home
Read More: Palestine, The Wandering Jew, Harel Ashwall, Rudolf Schildkraut, Conversations With Kafka, Max Brod, Else Lasker-Schüler, Israeli Government, Darkness at Noon, Prague, Bruno Schulz, Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Zionism, Prague-Czech Republic, Yiddish Theatre, Yad Vashem, Victor Serge, Reiner Stach, Israeli National Library, Josephine the Singer, German Literary Archive, Czechoslovakia, Israel, Eva Hoffe, Kabbalah, Albert Einstein, 1984, Dora Diamant, Gret Bloch, Esther Hoffe, Germany, Jewish State, Jerusalem, George Orwell, Arthur Koestler, Franz Kafka, St. Vitus Cathedral, Holocaust, Talmudic Discussion, The Castle, Tel Aviv, The Trial, Gustav Janouch, Poland, Ruth Wiesler, Gershom Scholem, Benjamin Lazarus, Mysticism, Or the Mouse Folk, Stefan Zweig, Judaism, Marbach, Kibbutzim, Home News
Benjamin Lazarus

In 1918, Kafka wrote about the early kibbutzim in Palestine, arguing there should be no legal courts - "Palestine needs earth (...) but it does not need lawyers". Until Israel realizes world Jewry and their cultural assets are not automatically property of the Jewish state, and removes its lawyers from this sorry tale - the world will continue to be starved of a true literary great's work.

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Orwell Prize 2012 Winners Plus 11 Things You Didn't Know About George

The Huffington Post UK | Alice E. Vincent | Posted 23.07.2012 | Home
Read More: 1984, George Orwell Facts, Political Writing, George Orwell, Books, Orwell Prize 2012, Slideexpand, Animal Farm, Author Facts, Home News

The winners of The 2012 Orwell Prize has been announced, marking the culmination of a search for the best political writing of the past 12 months. ...

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Beijing - An Arrest in Tiananmen Square and an Offer of Exciting Sex

John Fleming | Posted 23.06.2012 | UK
Read More: 1984, Prostitution, Repression, Mao, Police, Advertising, Beijing, Protest, Sex Tiananmen, China, UK News
John Fleming

I am in Beijing but, this morning, it felt like I was home in London when a taxi driver took me on a 12-minute round trip in the opposite direction to...

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Sam Parker

Happy Birthday Tolkien And Fiction's Greatest Made Up Languages

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Parker | Posted 04.03.2012 | Home
Read More: 1984, Made Up Languages, Elvish, George Orwell, UK Books, The Lord of the Rings, Newspeak, J. R. R. Tolkien, Home News

If humans could live as long as some of J. R. R. Tolkien’s famous fantasy characters, the author himself would have turned 120-years-old today (3rd ...

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Do They Know It's Christmas: Behind the Truth

Dale Shaw | Posted 20.02.2012 | UK Comedy
Read More: Music, Comedy, Christmas, 1984, UK Christmas, Phil Collins, Africa, UK Comedy, Bob Geldof, Band-Aid-Christmas, UK Music, UK Comedy News
Dale Shaw

1984. The year a man called George Orwell predicated the world would end in a book of the same name. But the world failed to end. Thanks to one man. A humble, dishevelled man. A singer, a balladeer, a mere minstrel. A man who threw off the shackles of light entertainment and opened the eyes of the puffy, pinstriped masses, permanently. Like an Irish Jesus come to life.

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Kim Jong-il & Vaclav Havel: What Would Hitch Think?

Chris Price | Posted 20.02.2012 | UK
Read More: 1984, Charter 77, The Trial, George Orwell, Tony Blair, Vaclav Havel, Christopher Hitchens, Leon Trotsky, Kim Jong Il, Franz Kafka, UK News
Chris Price

As if losing Hitch on Thursday weren't awful enough, Havel and Kim Jong Il then hammered home the irrefutable fact of his passing by doing likewise, reminding us that Christopher's death means we'll never know precisely what he thinks of theirs.

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Why Loving Jigsaws as a Child Helped Me Write Others' Autobiographies

John Fleming | Posted 07.02.2012 | UK Entertainment
Read More: 1984, Creativity, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Structure, Style, Technique, George Orwell, Writing, Creative, UK Culture, UK Comedy, UK Entertainment News
John Fleming

Last night, I was on a panel at the third Storywarp erm eh meeting, erm...conference?...shindig? - Whatever it was/is. People talk to an invited audi...

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