Orwell’s battle with the intelligentsia, or what the new Left Book Club can learn from the old one

By Oscar Clarke Nearly seven decades after the last one folded, a new Left Book Club has been founded. It has just released its first title – a book about the Syriza movement – and the timing could hardly be more appropriate. For, if nothing else, Jeremy Corbyn’s victory in the Labour leadership election is … Continue reading Orwell’s battle with the intelligentsia, or what the new Left Book Club can learn from the old one