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18 days ago

‘Fear really drives him’: is Alex Karp of Palantir the world’s scariest CEO? ⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

His company is potentially creating the ultimate state surveillance tool, and Karp has recently been on a striking political and philosophical journey. His biographer reveals what makes him tick

In a …

25 days ago

Does Britain value culture any more? Ask the striking workers at the British Library | Zadie Smith ⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The dispute over pay at this great national institution gets to the heart of our misplaced priorities

You know a country by its values. By what a country values. And it turns out that what a country v…

67 days ago

Pub renamed The George Orwell and projects 'Big Brother is watching you' slogan to punters in protest over Labour's digital ID cards

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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Signage with Sir Keir Starmer 's face has been placed on the building of the rebranded The James Atherton boozer in New Brighton, Merseyside.

70 days ago

The big brother local council: It's using facial recognition, AI surveillance and even drones to combat fly-tipping. And when ROBERT HARDMAN went he was interrogated by the police

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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

He might have been dead for 75 years, but it's been a hell of a month for George Orwell, the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and its vision of the ultimate authoritarian state.

82 days ago

Nothing prepared me for the child poverty I see in Britain. November’s budget can and must halt its inexorable rise | Gordon Brown

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Homes without heating, bedrooms with beds. If we are to offer any hope to the children of austerity, the next few weeks will be decisive

Run-down housing estates in Britain’s former industrial heartla…

84 days ago

Is this Britain's biggest trans rights bully? The disgraced former police officer whose complaint led to the arrest of Graham Linehan at Heathrow and is hell-bent on destroying the lives of her many high-profile victims

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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

The events which unfolded when Father Ted creator Graham Linehan stepped off the plane at Heathrow last week could have been scripted by George Orwell.

3 months ago

A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews review – a memoir of great scope and intimacy

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

A meditation on loss, literature and the unspoken, from one of Canada’s most admired writers

Asking himself “Why I write”, George Orwell gave four reasons: aesthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, po…

5 months ago

Secrets of Britain's biggest Wetherspoons. It can fit 1,400 people and has 100 beers on tap. Now HARRY WALLOP exposes exactly what goes on... and why they constantly need to change the carpet

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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Nearly 75 years ago, George Orwell wrote that the pub was part of 'something distinctive and recognisable in English civilization', a place where all types could gather.

6 months ago

Gary Lineker sends parting shot just hours after leaving the BBC with pro-Palestine poem featuring George Orwell quote

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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Taking to Instagram , the former England footballer shared a verse by Irish-Indian poet Nikita Gill about a Palestinian health worker who this week lost nine of her ten children in a single Israeli a…

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