November 2010

Ferdinand Mount’s ‘Orwell on the Oligarchs’ lecture: how George would have loved the Tory cuts

Well, I saw this coming a mile off. I knew that Ferdinand Mount was a novelist, Sunday Times columnist, Thatcher-era Tory grandee and former TLS editor when I heard him deliver his talk on ‘Orwell and the Oligarchs’ last night at the annual George Orwell Memorial Lecture hosted by Birkbeck. However, I had no idea

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Wilko Johnson presents Charles Shaar Murray with journalism award: Record of the Day 2010

The lovely readers of Record of the Day voted Charles Shaar Murray winner of the prestigious Outstanding Contribution to Music Journalism Award at last night’s bash at the Idea Generation Gallery in Shoreditch. Following an almost clean sweep of the awards by the newly rebooted NME, Charles’s old alma mater — thanks to editor Krissi

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