The Latest Breaking News from George Orwell

British tea culture still has a cachet around the world, and still means something at home.

Political art helps to debate and confront the challenges in our lives. It is also a record we must return to again and again, says Guardian theatre critic Arifa Akbar

This evocative account of the author’s mother and aunt – identical twin sisters who stole the hearts of London’s 1930s intelligentsia – captures their closeness and lust for life

Unrwa says offensive will cause more ‘civilian suffering and deaths.’ Plus, death toll climbs in Brazil floods

People around the world have sent the book, with their personal stories, to Edinburgh for an installation to mark its publication 75 years ago

Like a spectral invigilator, George Orwell is never far from our political discourse. Yesterday, Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer dramatised respectively the sharp distinction he drew in a famous 1945 essay between nationalism and patriotism. The Prime Minister, for his part, finally ensured that his Rwanda bill will become…

Tom Hardy, Cynthia Erivo and Andrew Scott conjure menace and melodrama in this 75th-anniversary remake of Orwell’s classic

The new audio adaptation of Orwell’s classic makes for an intense physical listening experience. Here, director Destiny Ekaragha and writer Joe White discuss the most visceral and human aspects of the story

After collaborating on the score for a new audio dramatisation of Orwell’s classic novel, the pair discuss how they built an immersive soundscape – and why the story inspires them