It was the 52nd anniversary of George Orwell’s death on 21st January and someone decided to make it George Orwell Day. To mark it, I’m reposting my review (more an essay) of John Newsinger’s book from 1999. George Orwell: a literary Trotskyist? (1999) A review of John Newsinger, Orwell’s Politics (Macmillan Press, 1999), £42.50 By […]
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Well, I saw this coming a mile off. I knew that Ferdinand Mount was a novelist, Sunday Times columnist, Thatcher-era Tory grandee and former TLS editor when I heard him deliver his talk on ‘Orwell and the Oligarchs’ last night at the annual George Orwell Memorial Lecture hosted by Birkbeck. However, I had no idea
Sometimes a thing is true even if George Orwell says it’s true. Old grudges die hard; Stalinists still hate George (not Galloway) while ‘decents’ claim him for their own. My fellow blogging longlister in the Orwell Prize, Dave Osler, has posted a defence of Gorgeous. And I guess that’s my cue to do likewise with
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