Orwell no communist Sir, News Weekly is as readable as ever. However, in the obituary of Robert Conquest (News Weekly, September 12) the article describes George Orwell as a “notable former communist”. Conquest was in the Communist Party once, as was Arthur Koestler. But Orwell was certainly never a member. It would have been an interesting time had he been a member, but…

In late August, more than 200,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan awoke to a text message saying that World Food Program (WFP) was cutting their food rations. The option for many was to head back into the war-torn countries from which they had fled, or take the dangerous route to Europe. The Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan The United Nations’ humanitarian work is not…

The Tony Abbott era is over and with it, in all probability, the last conservative government of the contemporary era. The forces against Abbott in the end were so great that there was no resistance and his own party – and very the same group of MPs he had brought to government less than two years ago – tore him down. And in…