![]() ![]() I have rarely been on a train journey without thinking of his description, as his train pulled out of a town, of a young woman kneeling on flagstones in the snow trying to unblock a drain outside. ![]() Orwell’s account is by turns deeply affecting and funny. Phrases and images from George Orwell’s tale of working class life in 1930s Northern England have stayed with me since I first read The Road to Wigan Pier over twenty years ago. Simon discusses George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier – a book he found both engaging and at the same time, flawed. He was formerly Senior Policy Advisor at the British Academy and a Senior Research Fellow at the Social Market Foundation. ![]() Simon Griffiths is a Lecturer in Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London and Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Political Ideologies in Oxford. ![]()
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