The Royal Baby name has been announced - it's George! But who was he named after? The obvious answer is any one of the King Georges I - VI who have reigned over our great nation. But there are other possibilities too...
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Brian Sewell describes plans to commit suicide if health fails
Sunday 14 July 2013
Art critic Brian Sewell has described in detail his plan to commit suicide using pills and gin.
The bigger the bomb, the bigger the bully
Sunday 16 June 2013
Orwell was as right about arms technology as he was about everything else. Plus, sex sells, and live TV's condition is 'serious but stable'
Shaker Aamer: 'I may have to die. I hope not. I want to see my family again'
Sunday 21 April 2013
Shaker Aamer was sent to Guantánamo Bay in 2002, and cleared to leave in 2007. Now, weakened by hunger strike, he asks what his fate has to do with justice
I just want to watch the Hovis TV ad, I don’t want to take part in it
Thursday 21 February 2013
Sony has launched a patent that could see the ads of the future turned into interactive videogames. But some of us already loathe pop-ups...
The Real George Orwell, rescued from endless parody and tiresome idiom for a new generation
Tuesday 12 February 2013
A superb new Radio 4 series has brought the work of the great socialist polemicist to life. Our writer, long a fan, explains why he was captivated from first minute to last
Review: The Fun Stuff and Other Essays, By James Wood
Sunday 27 January 2013
A would-be rock star of US letters gets to the root of George Orwell's class consciousness, savages Paul Auster, and demands excellence
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four to get first time radio adaptation
Tuesday 22 January 2013
George Orwell's classic Nineteen Eighty-Four is to be dramatised by BBC radio for the first time - almost 70 years after the writer worked at the corporation's Broadcasting House, which partly inspired his tale.
What gets my goat! 'Room 101' returns
Sunday 30 December 2012
A new set of celebrities reveal their pet hates. Jonathan Owen investigates
Free Ravi Shankar Download: get his 1950s debut album today only
Wednesday 12 December 2012
There was some commotion in news conference this morning, when a very senior executive issued a heresy. Ravi Shankar, he said, might have been a magnificent technician, but he wasn't all that positive an influence on music. A huge amount of musical drudgery issued, indeed, from his influence. Well, suffice to say that is not the prevailing orthodoxy; rather, most people think he was possibly the finest living exponent of a musical form that was sublime and spiritual.
War is never glorious, so why we do we bully those who protest against poppy culture?
Tuesday 13 November 2012
A student refused to lay a poppy wreath last Sunday
Come on up, the view's lovely: First look from the Shard's public gallery
Friday 26 October 2012
Visitors taking tours of the Shard will be able to enjoy views of up to 40 miles across London when it opens in February.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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