Passers-by and drivers will have noticed that the clock in the tower of the former Orwell building at Wigan Pier has disappeared in recent days. Many may have presumed it had been taken away for ...

Manchester’s emergence as the site and center of the industrial revolution was based on the “three C’s”: coal, cotton, and canals. The new Manchester’s bid to become a tourist destination is based on ...

OVER the past few weeks, debates over British fiscal policy have been conducted under the shadow of George Orwell's "The Road to Wigan Pier", a powerful description of the poverty he found in the ...