Journal 20 Autumn 2022

This edition’s front cover: the editors found this image on-line. if anybody knows its designer’s name, please let us know and we will credit him/her in the next issue.

Quentin Kopp. Welcome

Marsha Karp. War is Peace: an extract from her book Orwell and Russia

Eric Arthur Blair. On a Ruined Farm near the His Master’s Voice Gramophone Factory
Douglas Kerr. Unspoken Dilemma On this puzzling poem

Jeffrey Meyers’ Gulliver’s travels and Animal Farm
Jeffrey Meyers. The Beauty of Animal Farm

John Boaler. “Joyce Interests Me So Much That I Can’t Stop Talking About Him Once I Start” On James Joyce’s Ulysses

Ron Bateman. Orwell and the Radio War an abridged extract from his book The BBC and the Propaganda War 1939-45

Ruoyu Bu. Patriotism Winner of this year’s Orwell Society Dystopian Fiction Competition.

John Rodden. The Time is Un…Hitched? on Christopher Hitchens

Jason Crimp. Searching for the Rude Earth’s Tenants a review of The tramp in British Literature, 1850 – 1950 by Luke Lewin Davies

L. J. Hurst. Charles Dickens in the Road to Wigan Pier “As who should say”?

Ian Bloom. So Near… a Bibliographical encounter in Barcelona

Dione Venables. The Other Side of the Coin: A Hop-Picking Memory

Conor Bellon. What Orwell’s Teacup Teaches Us About Good Writing Simple writing about simple pleasures

Tom Miller and Sylvia Topp Letters to the Editor on Issue 19

Quentin Kopp. Events Report