A prominent critic was George Orwell, who frequently referred to him in his essays and diaries as " A Catholic Apologist " and accused him of being " silly-clever ", in line with his criticisms of G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Ronald Knox and Wyndham-Lewis.

The subsequent campaign of lies and distortion carried out by the Communist press, in which the POUM was accused of collaborating with the fascists, had a dramatic effect on Orwell.

One biography of Orwell accused him of having had an authoritarian streak.

In January 2000 he likened the Labour party to Big Brother in the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and accused prime minister Tony Blair of being a " control freak ".

George Orwell, always hostile to pacifism, accused the PPU of " moral collapse " after Dick Sheppard's death in October 1937 on the grounds of its links with the BUF.

Stone, Studs Terkel, Leon Trotsky, George Orwell, Henry Miller, Franklin D. Roosevelt, James K. Galbraith, John Steinbeck, Barbara Tuchman, T. S. Eliot, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Frost, Frank Lloyd Wright, Hannah Arendt, Ezra Pound, Henry James, Charles Sanders Peirce, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Maynard Keynes, Naomi Klein, Alexander Cockburn, Tariq Ali, Michael Naumann, Stuart Chase, and poet John Beecher.

Cockburn was attacked by George Orwell in Homage to Catalonia ( 1938 ).

In the first week of July 1937 Orwell arrived back at Wallington ; on 13 July 1937 a deposition was presented to the Tribunal for Espionage & High Treason, Valencia, charging the Orwells with ' rabid Trotskyism ', and being agents of the POUM.

Orwell had been looking for the opportunity throughout the war, but his failed medical reports prevented him from being allowed anywhere near action.

" Rodden refers to the essay " Why I Write ", in which Orwell refers to the Spanish Civil War as being his " watershed political experience ", saying " The Spanish War and other events in 1936 – 37, turned the scale.

' " For Democratic Socialism " is vaporised, just like Winston Smith did it at the Ministry of Truth, and that ’ s very much what happened at the beginning of the McCarthy era and just continued, Orwell being selectively quoted.

" Having witnessed the success of the anarcho-syndicalist communities, for example in Anarchist Catalonia, and the subsequent brutal suppression of the anarcho-syndicalists, anti-Stalin communist parties and revolutionaries by the Soviet Union-backed Communists, Orwell returned from Catalonia a staunch anti-Stalinist and joined the Independent Labour Party, his card being issued on 13 June 1938.

After Sonia Brownell's death, other works on Orwell were published in the 1980s, with 1984 being a particularly fruitful year for Orwelliana.

Having evaded Edward's fleet, which had been sent to intercept them, Isabella and Mortimer landed at Orwell on the east coast of England on 24 September with a small force ; estimates of Isabella's army vary from between 300 to around 2, 000 soldiers, with 1, 500 being a popular middle figure.

Apart from obvious political considerations that saw works such as those of George Orwell being banned, access to foreign art and literature was also restricted on aesthetic grounds.

" Orwellian " describes the situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society.

In many of his essays and letters Orwell criticised words with formally precise definitions being used badly and the vague slide in meaning for many of these words.

She also appeared in a television special produced by Nam June Paik broadcast on New Years Day 1984, entitled Good Morning Mr. Orwell ( the title being inspired by Orwell's novel 1984 ).

In a letter to Brenda Salkeld, Orwell himself disowned it as ' tripe ', " except for chap 3, part 1, which I am pleased with ..." and prevented it being reprinted during his lifetime.

After being shortlisted in 2007 and 2009, Hitchens won the Orwell Prize in political journalism in 2010.

Peter Keller, one of the Orwell Prize judges, described Hitchens's writing as being " as firm, polished and potentially lethal as a Guardsman ’ s boot.

His blog for The Daily Telegraph, where he worked before being hired by The Sun on Sunday, was long listed for the 2012 George Orwell Prize for blogging.

" Orwell summed-up Reed's book as: " the dominant notes being back to the land, more emigration, down with the Reds and — above all — down with the Jews.

Other activities in which Orwell was involved included narrowly missing winning the diving competition, playing the part of Mr Jingles in the school play, and being commended as a useful member of the 1st XI cricket team.

One of the reasons for the pub reputedly being so popular with Orwell and Thomas is its proximity to Broadcasting House and Langham Place-both worked for the BBC in the 1940s and ' 50s and the pub continues to be popular with media types.

In the society that Orwell describes, everyone is under complete surveillance by the authorities, mainly by telescreens.

As a child Orwell ( under his real name Eric Blair ) published poems praising Kitchener and war recruitment in his local newspaper.

Orwell and his wife were under threat and had to lie low, although they broke cover to try to help Kopp.

" Orwell did not wish to publish under his own name Eric Blair, and Orwell was the name he used from then on for his main works — although many periodical articles were still published under the name Eric Blair.

Gollancz published the work under the Left Book Club which gave Orwell a far higher circulation than his previous works.

The writer Eric Blair chose the pen name under which he would later become famous, " George Orwell ", because of his love for the river.

He exchanged public correspondence with George Orwell defending pacifism in the open letter / poem " Letter to an American Visitor " under the pseudonym " Obadiah Hornbrooke.

EAR re-launched Orwell and Saxon as one station under the SGR fm banner in 1992 and also won the licence to start SGR Colchester in Essex the following year.

It is regarded as a reference to Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken under whom Orwell worked during the war, creating propaganda, and whom Orwell detested.

Set in Burma, where Orwell ( under his real name of Eric Arthur Blair ) had served in the British Imperial Police from 1922 to 1927, it describes the execution of a criminal.

Some of these were written under the names of " Orwell " and Hermann Kunst.

George Orwell wrote his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four on the isolated island of Jura, Scotland to describe how a man ( Winston Smith ) attempts to develop critical conscience in a totalitarian state which watches every action of the people and manipulates their thinking with a mixture of propaganda, endless war and thought control through language control ( double think and newsspeak ) to the point where prisoners look up to and even love their torturers.

Although the poem was written a year before she met Orwell, there are striking similarities between the futuristic vision of O ' Shaughnessy's poem and that of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, including the use of mind control, and the eradication of personal freedom by a police state.

This situation can also be found in the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four where Big Brother and the government literally control what the nation hears, sees, and learns.

* Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell which illustrates the ultimate totalitarian state in which the government is in control of every aspect of human existence, using propaganda, universal surveillance, and torture.

Orwell expressed surprise that they should still want him, because according to the Communist press he was a fascist.

Observing events from French Morocco Orwell wrote that they were "— only a by-product of the Russian Trotskyist trials and from the start every kind of lie, including flagrant absurdities, has been circulated in the Communist press.

A fan of Orwell since school days, he found the reality very different, with Orwell hostile and disagreeable probably because of Holbrook's membership of the Communist Party.

In 1928, Orwell began his career as a professional writer in Paris at a journal owned by the French Communist, Henri Barbusse.

The dossier, published by The National Archives, mentions that according to one investigator, Orwell had " advanced Communist views and several of his Indian friends say that they have often seen him at Communist meetings.

Orwell went on to suggest that because both the UK and the Soviet Union were members of the Allied powers at the time, this self-censorship was preventing valid criticism of the Communist regime.

Other contributions included two essays by George Orwell, " Fascism and Democracy " and " Patriots and Revolutionaries " that condemned the Communist Party of Great Britain for backing the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 and for taking a revolutionary defeatist position in the war against Nazi Germany.

The actual reason was to see his girlfriend Susan Watson, who was Orwell's housekeeper, but Orwell assumed it was connected with Holbrook's membership of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and gave him a frosty reception.