It was the 52nd anniversary of George Orwell’s death on 21st January and someone decided to make it George Orwell Day. To mark it, I’m reposting my review (more an essay) of John Newsinger’s book from 1999. George Orwell: a literary Trotskyist? (1999) A review of John Newsinger, Orwell’s Politics (Macmillan Press, 1999), £42.50 By […]
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I was, am and will continue to be thrilled by this encouragement from meister songwriter Wilko Johnson for my poetry. Here he is saying nice things about Reaching for my Gnu at his house last week. So looking forward to his gigs in March — a farewell tour to beat all farewell tours. Bless you,
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Spent Tuesday afternoon with one of the two most beautiful men in rock ‘n’ roll, the other one being David Bowie. Three if you include the lovely Charles Shaar Murray who I drove through the snow to Wilko Johnson’s house in Southend. We found him in awesome mood for a man who’s just announced he
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Tescos, Burger King and now Waitrose have been caught in the adulterated food scandal where up to 29 per cent of some burgers have been found to contain horsemeat. Less worrisome than the squeamishness about eating my friend Flicka is the obvious problem that racehorse flesh will contain various cancer-causing nasties injected over careers shorter
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Tescos, Burger King and now Waitrose have been caught in the adulterated food scandal where up to 29 per cent of some burgers have been found to contain horsemeat. Less worrisome than the squeamishness about eating my friend Flicka is the obvious problem that racehorse flesh will contain various cancer-causing nasties injected over careers shorter
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This bra costs £1.6 million in London’s Bond Street. Half a milion quid’s worth of handbags owned by one woman, bras costing £1.6 million, diamond encrusted EVERYTHING. The super-rich have never had it so good. I’m dizzy from all this high altitude spending while we have to juggle fixing pot-holes with keeping libraries open. The
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