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39 days ago

The Alienation Effect by Owen Hatherley review – how immigrants reshaped postwar Britain

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a story from The Guardian › International

Behind many symbols of quintessentially British culture – from Picture Post to Pevsner’s guides – were refugees who fled Europe in the 1930s and 40s

In the early 1940s, the publisher Collins launched …

45 days ago

George Orwell and me: Richard Blair on life with his extraordinary father

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a story from The Guardian › International

The literary giant’s only child reflects on his father’s devotion in their days together in rural Scotland, his early death, his genius as a writer – and his reputation as a womaniser

Richard Blair di…

50 days ago

The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – ‘It was like fresh air’

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a story from The Guardian › International

A fascinating, exciting history of how the agency smuggled subversive books across the iron curtain

In, I think, November 1978, I got a call from a rather grand British journalist who’d heard that I w…

70 days ago

‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism

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a story from The Guardian › International

From George Orwell to Hannah Arendt and John le Carré, thousands of blacklisted books flooded into Poland during the cold war, as publishers and printers risked their lives for literature

The volume’s…

3 months ago

Why Labour insiders tell me 'our job isn't to beat the Tories' as a shock poll exposes Starmer's REAL weakness... and thanks to a 'proles' problem his fight-back looks doomed: DAN HODGES reveals the most incendiary Westminster whispers

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a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

It was something straight from the pages of George Orwell. Ministers have been warned proposed legislation to protect workers from harassment by customers could scupper pub talk debates.

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