The State Department is facing a lawsuit for funding a “censorship regime” built by technologies that blacklist conservative media outlets. In a suit filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), ...
12.06.2023 Foxnews.com and 19 sitesF or most writers, a memoir is a once in a lifetime event, but not for the poet and novelist Blake Morrison. Having already written memoirs about his late mother and father, he has turned his attentio...
12.07.2023 Theguardian.com and 3 sitesOne of the games I sometimes play is to guess which newspaper, if any, is read by people whom I pass in the street. Was it my imagination, on Tuesday morning, that there were more than the usual numbe...
12.07.2023 Dailymail.co.uk and 1 sitesAmazon, Etsy A rotating bedside bookshelf , hand-poured soy candle that's scented like old books and a Kindle Paperwhite e-reader . Inside the pages of books , I’ve felt entire ranges of human emotion...
12.05.2023 Huffpost.com and 1 sitesMuppet show HERE’S a message for Tory hard-liners plotting to upend Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda scheme and even his premiership: Let’s hope you enjoy Labour’s migrant solution. Topple another PM and you will soon see just how unbothered Keir Starmer is by small boats — while you search for new careers suitable for ex- Tory MPs. Any rebels thinking the party’s stock cannot sink lower should think again. The public have not a single moment’s patience left for their incessant civil wars. Scuttle the sole ...
12.08.2023 Thesun.co.ukThe Book at War, Andrew Pettegree, Profile, $55 Early in Andrew Pettegree’s book, there’s a picture of Joseph Stalin relaxing on a bed reading. Apparently the Soviet dictator “was one of the best-read...
12.04.2023 smh.com.au , theage.com.au and 1 sitesThe real-life Big Brothers think they’re fighting Big Brother. On the first Friday in December, a production of 1984 is reserved for black people. It’s only fair since a few weeks earlier the show abo...
12.06.2023 Frontpagemag.com and 2 sitesGeorge ORWELL’s essay “Politics and the English Language”, published in 1946, took aim at the bureaucrats, academics and hacks who obfuscated their misdeeds in vague, jargon-packed writing. Abstractio...
12.04.2023 Hindustantimes.com and 1 sitesThe Texas attorney general’s office announced Wednesday that it was teaming up with two right-wing sites—The Daily Wire and The Federalist—to sue the U. S. Department of State over a purported “conspi...
12.07.2023 Thedailybeast.comIt’s not that easy to narrow down my favourites of 2023, but at the top of the list is Tom Lake (Bloomsbury) by Ann Patchett. A hopeful story that reminds us to find happiness in the smallest things, I loved it. I was also gripped by The Wager (Simon...
12.08.2023 Theage.com.au and 3 sites