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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

Daily Mirror

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘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 Independent UK

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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 Conversation

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

The Guardian - UK

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.

The New Daily

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.”

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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.”

Chicago Tribune

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

Chronicle Live

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

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

Daily Mirror

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

The Independent UK

The Sagrada Familia, a Spanish cathedral still unfinished after 140 years

Antoni Gaudi’s magnificent Sagrada Familia a reminder of the blessings of faith free to express itself.

Chicago Sun-Times

Putin’s Nightmare: ‘1984’ Is Now A Bestselling Book In Russia

George Orwell’s “1984” has topped the bestseller list in Russia, a year plagued by President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine

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The Independent UK

The once-banned dystopian novel that has become Russia’s bestseller

‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ is the most popular fiction download of 2022 on Russia’s online book-selling platform

Fortune

George Orwell’s dystopian novel ‘1984,’ about an autocratic regime that oppresses its citizens, is now a bestseller in Russia

George Orwell’s book about a totalitarian ruler who clamps down on citizens’ freedoms and keeps them under constant surveillance is a big hit in Russia.

The Guardian - UK

Stories with teeth: How animal tales help us understand humans

From Ovid to George Orwell, writers have long been inspired by the natural world. Fifty years after the publication of Watership Down, Katherine Rundell celebrates the authors who have taken a walk on the wild side

The Guardian - UK

Which fellow dystopian taught George Orwell at Eton? The Saturday quiz

From unusual animals to Jamaica’s national fruit, test your knowledge in this brainteasing weekend puzzle

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George Orwell on World War I

The Guardian - UK

Simon Schama’s History of Now review – this highly personal show is simplistic and outdated

The academic’s look at truth, democracy and art has its heart very much in the right place. But too often it’s fighting old battles rather than grasping the modern reality of untruths

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Simon Schama meets Pussy Riot in new personal project

The historian also speaks with George Orwell’s son in a new history series. Plus: the chaos continues in SAS Rogue Heroes. Here’s everything ton watch this evening

ABC News

Albany inclusivity logo approved as councillor cites George Orwell's Animal Farm

A logo encouraging inclusion has been approved by a council in WA, despite claims it could "fragment" the community and comparisons to George Orwell's novel Animal Farm.

The Guardian - UK

Salt-flats and autumn sun: a car-free break on Suffolk’s Shotley peninsula

Our special feature on trips with no driving starts with a train, bus and walking of the salty wilderness of southern SuffolkFive more car-free UK trips

The Conversation

Joan Didion for sale: the auction of the author's belongings reveals the grand fiction of her image

There are few writers as visually distinctive as Joan Didion. We have glimpses of her as a young reporter with her delicately poised silk scarf and anorak. A decade later we see her on the porch of her Malibu home, casting an ironic glance at her partner and daughter in…

The Guardian - UK

Machine-learning systems are problematic. That’s why tech bosses call them ‘AI’

Pretending that opaque, error-prone ML is part of the grand, romantic quest to find artificial intelligence is an attempt to distract us from the truth

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