Homage to Catalonia

One of the pleasures of lockdown is to read and also reread. It’s been a long time since I picked up a George Orwell book, decades in fact, but I was moved to take up his classic depiction of fighting in the Spanish Civil War to be reminded in an age of keyboard social justice …

Hons and Rebels

The Mitford Sisters are iconic siblings who managed to put themselves at the heart of politics in the 1930s and have an enduring mystique. Unity Mitford became a confidante of Hitler while her sister Diana married the British Fascist leader Oswald Moseley. However, their sister Jessica choose a different path. She veered violently to the …