The New Statesman and Nation, 3 September 1932 Common lodging houses, of which there are several hundred in London, are night-shelters specially licensed by the LCC.1 They are intended for people who cannot afford regular lodgings, and in effect they…
Journalism
Newspaper articles written by George Orwell
Journalism
Through a Glass, Rosily
Tribune, 23 November 1945 The recent article by Tribune’s Vienna correspondent provoked a spate of angry letters which, besides calling him a fool and a liar and making other charges of what one might call a routine nature, also carried…
Journalism
French election will be influenced by the fact that women will have first vote (April 1945)
Manchester Evening News, 16 April 1945 No date has yet been fixed for the General Election, but it has been officially stated that the municipal elections will take place at the end of this month provided that the date fixed…
Journalism
Mood of the Moment (19 April 1942)
The Observer, 19 April 1942. Published anonymously.1 There is not much grumbling about the Budget. Common ale at tenpence a pint and cigarettes at ten for a shilling, unimaginable a few years ago, now seem hardly worth bothering about. In…
Journalism
How a Nation Is Exploited – The British Empire in Burma (May 1929)
Le Progrès Civique, 4 May 1929. Translated into English by Janet Percival and Ian Willison. Following the recent troubles in India, we have asked our contributor, Mr E. A. Blair, whose investigations on ‘The Plight of the British Worker’ have already…
Journalism
Just Junk – But Who Could Resist It?
Evening Standard, 5 January 1946 Which is the most attractive junk shop in London is a matter of taste, or for debate: but I could lead you to some first-rate ones in the dingier areas of Greenwich, in Islington near…
Journalism
Beggars in London (January 1929)
Le Progrès Civique, 12 January 1929 Any visitor to London must have noticed the large number of beggars one comes across in the streets. These unfortunates, often crippled or blind, can be seen all over the capital. You might say…
Documents, Journalism
Why Not War Writers? A Manifesto
Horizon, October 1941 The role of writers to-day, when every free nation and every free man and woman is threatened by the Nazi war-machine, is a matter of supreme importance. Creative writers, poets, novelists and dramatists have a skill, imagination…
Journalism
Can Socialists Be Happy?
Tribune, 24 December 1943. Written by George Orwell but published under the name ‘John Freeman’. The thought of Christmas raises almost automatically the thought of Charles Dickens, and for two very good reasons. To begin with, Dickens is one of…
Essays, Journalism
Publication of “Can Socialists be Happy?” by John Freeman
Orwell’s Payments Book records at 20 December 1943 £5.5.0 for a special article of 2,000 words for Tribune. This has not been traced in Tribune under Orwell’s name, but it seems certain that a slightly longer article, Can Socialists be…