5 JANUARY 1985, page 12

Northern Bargains

Richard West C hristmas brought to a climax an ever- growing financial bonanza in Northern Ireland, which is now inundated by shop- pers from over the border in the Republic of......

Orwell's Silliness

John Casey I t was the year of the Orwellians, rather than of Orwell. Dozens of articles, a conference in Cambridge, a whole issue of Encounter devoted to Orwell's thought, a......