The globe and our country face challenges on political, economic and social fronts as we enter 2025. The sentence — May you live in interesting times — is often taken as a curse. If so we are cursed.
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Picture shows Peter Cushing as Winston Smith and Yvonne Mitchell as Julia. George Orwell’s novel 1984 was brought to television on 12 December 1954, written by Nigel Kneale and directed by ...