"What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice."| The Orwell Foundation
Dione Venables has complied an anthology of George Orwell’s poetry, titled George Orwell: The Complete Poetry, published this month. Here, she writes exclusively for The Orwell Prize about Orwell’s poetry and why she engaged in the project. Fools Rush In… Dione Venables Having read Keep The Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell, and so enjoyed the way he created a... Read more » The post Fools Rush In… appeared first on The Orwell Foundation.| The Orwell Foundation
6 Books, journalists, and pieces of social reporting announced for the Orwell Prize Shortlist Three first-time writers on Book Prize shortlist: Louisa Lim on China, Rana Dasgupta on Delhi, and Dan Davies’ book on Jimmy Savile In Plain Sight Journalism Prize shortlist features reporting and comment on a range of issues, from Peter... Read more » The post The Orwell Prize 2015 Shortlists announced appeared first on The Orwell Foundation.| The Orwell Foundation
“Is there an Unreported Britain? The democratic deficit and the new contours of want” The Boardroom 309 Regent Street University of Westminster W1B 2HW London United Kingdom On the evening of the 21st of April, the Orwell Prize will be announcing the shortlists for its 2015 prizes at a debate between journalist Stephen Armstrong and... Read more » The post 2015 Shortlist debate and announcement appeared first on The Orwell Foundation.| The Orwell Foundation
Follow the link below for the first article in the Unreported Britain series. The rise of DIY dentistry: Britons doing their own fillings to avoid NHS bill Today marks the launch of the Unreported Britain series. The Orwell Prize, set up in Orwell’s name to focus attention on good writing about political issues – together with the... Read more » The post Unreported Britain series appeared first on The Orwell Foundation.| The Orwell Foundation
This year’s Orwell Prize longlist will be announced on this website at noon on Wednesday the 25th of March. It will include the longlisted candidates for the book prize, the journalism prize, and the new prize for ‘exposing Britain’s social evils‘, created in partnership with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The post The Orwell Prize Longlist 2015: Announcement appeared first on The Orwell Foundation.| The Orwell Foundation
For the annual Orwell Lecture, David Kynaston will discuss ‘Whatever Happened to Social Mobility’, on Wednesday 12 November. David Kynaston is a professional historian who has written eighteen books, including the widely acclaimed four-volume The City of London, and the best-selling Austerity Britain. He is an honorary professor at Kingston University. The lecture will begin at 6.30pm. Please... Read more » The post The Orwell Lecture 2014 appeared first on The Orwell Foundation.| The Orwell Foundation
The Housing Crisis and the Countryside, ‘Buried by a kind of volcanic eruption from the outer suburbs’ (George Orwell, Coming Up For Air). Thursday 24 July 2014, 2pm-3pm To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the publication of ‘Coming Up for Air’, Orwell Prize director Professor Jean Seaton will chair a panel to discuss the rural and... Read more » The post Buxton Festival 2014: The Housing Crisis and the Countryside appeared first on The Orwell Foundation.| The Orwell Foundation
In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing’s Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the country, the communists destroyed the old order and replaced it with a repressive system that would dominate every aspect of Chinese life. In an epic of revolution and violence which draws on newly opened party archives, interviews and memoirs,... Read more » The post Frank Dikötter appeared first on The Orwell Foundation.| The Orwell Foundation
Aditya Chakrabortty is economics leader writer and columnist for the Guardian. He has previously worked as a senior producer on the BBC Ten o’clock News and on Newsnight. He has also written for the Telegraph, the Financial Times, the FT Magazine, and the New Statesman. Articles submitted The Welfare State, 1942-2013 Obituary: after decades... Read more » The post Aditya Chakrabortty appeared first on The Orwell Foundation.| The Orwell Foundation
In The British Dream, David Goodhart tells the story of post-war immigration and charts a course for its future. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with people from all over the country and a wealth of statistical evidence, he paints a striking picture of how Britain has been transformed by immigration and examines the progress of its ethnic... Read more » The post David Goodhart appeared first on The Orwell Foundation.| The Orwell Foundation
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is an Iraqi journalist, who has reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya. He is a Guardian foreign correspondent, and writes regularly for the London Review of Books. Articles submitted How to Start a Battalion (in Five Easy Lessons) – London Review of Books, 21/02/2013 Diary – London Review of Books,... Read more » The post Ghaith Abdul-Ahad appeared first on The Orwell Foundation.| The Orwell Foundation
Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore’s authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era. Charles Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher, published after her death on 8 April 2013, immediately supercedes all earlier books written... Read more » The post Charles Moore appeared first on The Orwell Foundation.| The Orwell Foundation
AA Gill is a writer and critic for the Sunday Times and Vanity Fair. Submitted articles Welcome to death island – The Sunday Times Magazine, 08/12/2013 ‘My family name means I had to go through a lot’ – The Sunday Times Magazine, 17/11/2013 Yet another one for the road – The Sunday Times Magazine, 29/12/2013 Long day’s journey into the... Read more » The post AA Gill appeared first on The Orwell Foundation.| The Orwell Foundation
Gideon Rachman became chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times in July 2006. He joined the FT after a 15-year career at The Economist, which included spells as a foreign correspondent in Brussels, Washington and Bangkok. He also edited The Economist’s business and Asia sections. His particular interests include American foreign policy, the European Union and globalisation. He is the author... Read more » The post Gideon Rachman appeared first on The Orwell Foundation.| The Orwell Foundation
Award-winning journalist James Fergusson is among the few to have witnessed at first hand the devastating reality of life in the failed and desperate state of Somalia. This corner of the world has long been seen as the rotting and charred heart of Africa: a melting pot of crime, corruption, poverty, famine and civil war.... Read more » The post James Fergusson appeared first on The Orwell Foundation.| The Orwell Foundation
Jonathan Freedland is a columnist at the Guardian. He also regularly writes for the New York Review of Books and the Jewish Chronicle. He also presents ‘The Long View’ on Radio 4, and writes novels under the pseudonym Sam Bourne. He was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for journalism in 2007. Submitted Articles Marking... Read more » The post Jonathan Freedland appeared first on The Orwell Foundation.| The Orwell Foundation
In 1903 a Brahmin woman sailed from India to Guyana as a ‘coolie’, the name the British gave to the million indentured labourers they recruited for sugar plantations worldwide after slavery ended. The woman, who claimed no husband, was pregnant and travelling alone. A century later, her great-granddaughter embarks on a journey into the past,... Read more » The post Gaiutra Bahadur appeared first on The Orwell Foundation.| The Orwell Foundation
James Astill is Political editor and Bagehot columnist of the Economist. He has previously worked as International Security editor, South Asia correspondent, and Energy and Environment editor for the Economist. Articles submitted Bagehot: The Weirdness of Eastleigh – The Economist, 23/02/2013 Bagehot: The Parable of the Clyde – The Economist, 31/08/2013 Bagehot: The New Islamophobes – The Economist, 19/10/2013 Bagehot: More... Read more »| The Orwell Foundation
As an independent charity, we rely on the generosity of donors, Friends and Patrons to maintain these free resources. I First of all the physical memories, the sound, the smells and the surfaces of things. It is curious that more vividly than anything that came afterwards in the Spanish war I remember the week of so-called training... Read more »| The Orwell Foundation
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"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."| The Orwell Foundation
