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There was a classic early Alan Partridge radio show whereby his guest comic (Patrick Marber) does an impression of Alan: IMPERSONATOR: ... I'm Alan Partridge, I'm the man. I'm Alan Partridge, I tell ya, I'm Alan Partridge. I'm the man who makes Jimmy Hill look like Umberto Eco. I'm Alan...

Yes. If you listened and read carefully enough, Self is full of praise of Orwell and has probably read more of his work than you or I have even heard of. He loves his work, but is actually attacking Orwell's insistence that the English language can be expressed in the simplest forms as...

You didn't listen to it before commenting did you…it's worth listening because it's not actually about Orwell's work as such.http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04fchmd

To be honest, never touched many of his articles even as a big fan of his novels. To my mind he should stop the articles and spend more time getting some proper writing done!

You're right, he's a good novelist, and Great Apes is a brilliant satire which is not unlike a modern fusion of Kafka and Orwell mixed in together, if not some Huxley as well. In pure writing terms I've found him very inventive and engaging compared to many including Tony Parsons (whose style I...