Some of the best pieces of fiction ever written about revolutionary experience are outlined by writer and historian John Rees When I first started to…
Animal Farm
In spite of their differing perceptions of the architecture of the totalitarian superstate and how it exercises power and control over its residents, George Orwell…
In 1937 George Orwell said that coal mining was the ‘metabolism’ of western civilisation. What he meant by this striking metaphor was that coal was…
I have spent most of my working life writing about countries where communal or nationalist differences determine and, on occasion, convulse the political landscape. My…
Close to three quarters of a century ago—all of 13 years before William Golding’sLord of the Flies came out, just 4 years before George Orwell’s Animal Farm, and just months…