Reclaiming the role of public intellectuals in the age of social media. In a world flooded with opinions, the role of the public intellectual has never been more essential—or more compromised. Once ...

We need to read good literature to help us once again find connection with one another. Tragically, we have been desensitised and dehumanised by the ceaseless exposure to what is abnormal in human ...

In 1936, he was commissioned to write an account of poverty among unemployed miners in the north of England, which resulted in 'The Road to Wigan Pier' (1937). The defining political experience of ...