Tribune

...his dislike of the right. Interestingly enough, he once wrote an article for Tribune in which he supported Gaelic (notably, this came during the two years he was living in Jura and writing Nineteen-Eighty-Four). Regarding the quote you...

In this article: Nationalism, Gordon Brown, George Orwell, Scotland, Mahatma Gandhi, Tax, God, and Respondent

We were even less pleased, a little later, to discover an advertisement for a third such event, presided over by the RMT union's Bob Crow, in which the star item was ... presumably Tribune had a suitcase full of the things. Post a...

In this article: Paul Mason, Richard Ingrams, Barry Sheerman, Ludovic Kennedy, George Orwell, The Sun, and Mississippi

'Towards the end of 1943, I decided to give up my job in the BBC," wrote George Orwell in As I Pleased (1947), "and I was asked to take over the literary editorship of Tribune, in place of John Atkins, who was expecting call-up." Indeed...

In this article: John Atkins, George Orwell, Ken Campbell, JB Priestley, An Inspector Calls, and Fortean Times

...of Empire Talks, while his subordinate languished in the Eastern Service before escaping to a more congenial billet as literary editor of Tribune. The ill feeling left over from the Gollancz days burned on, and Peter Davison, the editor of...

In this article: Norman Collins, George Orwell, London, Patrick Hamilton, Victor Gollancz, and Angel Pavement

1943 in literature George Orwell resigns from the BBC to become literary editor of Tribune. Isaac Bashevis Singer becomes a naturalized citizen of the United States. Jack Kerouac joins the US Navy. C. S. Lewis makes a series of radio...

In this article: Mere Christianity, She Died a Lady, US Navy, John Dickson Carr, Jack Kerouac, and C. S. Lewis

In the early war years he contributed articles on military strategy to the Evening Standard, and in 1942, on the recommendation of Michael Foot, was hired by Aneurin Bevan as de facto editor of the left-wing weekly Tribune ''. (Bevan...

In this article: Jon Kimche, Palestine, Evening Standard, George Orwell, Europe, Middle East, Next Century Foundation, Independent Labour Party, and Secker and Warburg

...leftwing propaganda to Nazi Germany between 1940 and 1942. She joined the left wing weekly Tribune in 1943 as assistant editor, taking particular responsibility for foreign affairs. She became a close friend of Orwell when he joined the paper...

In this article: George Orwell, London, Britain, Nazism, Communism, Manchester Evening News, Anvil, and German Communist Party

...whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive. Orwell's essays in Tribune, including this, have been described in The Independent as some of the greatest essays in the English language. The question Orwell raised continues to provide a...

In this article: George Orwell, Tobacco, and Dog

...with literary friends, particularly on the political left. Late in 1942, he started writing for the left-wing weekly Tribune '' directed by Labour MPs Aneurin Bevan and George Strauss. In March 1943 Orwell's mother died and around the same...

In this article: George Orwell, Jack London, Jacintha Buddicom, Victor Gollancz Ltd, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Socialism, Spanish Civil War, Animal Farm, and Eton College