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"As I Please" was a series of articles written between 1943 and 1947 for the British left-wing newspaper ''
Tribune
Tribune () was the title of various elected officials in ancient Rome. The two most important were the tribunes of the plebs and the military tribunes. For most of Roman history, a college of ten tribunes of the plebs acted as a check on the ...
'' by author and journalist
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitar ...
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in November 1943, Orwell joined ''Tribune'' as
literary editor A literary editor is an editor in a newspaper, magazine or similar publication who deals with aspects concerning literature and books, especially reviews. . Over the next three-and-a-half years he wrote a series of columns, under the title "As I Please", that remain some of the greatest examples of their genre in the English language. The articles allowed Orwell to digress freely over whatever topics came into his mind, including reminiscences, nature observations, gleanings from books and thoughts on the political situation. Each article roamed from one theme to another without any need for formal continuity but had no title indicating the content.
The first article appeared in December 1943 and considered prevailing attitude to American servicemen in Britain. The last, in April 1947, covered the publication of social surveys by the
Mass Observation
Mass-Observation is a United Kingdom social research project; originally the name of an organisation which ran from 1937 to the mid-1960s, and was revived in 1981 at the University of Sussex.
Mass-Observation originally aimed to record everyday ...
research group, venereal diseases and begins the concluding section "For the last five minutes I have been gazing out of the window into the square, keeping a sharp look-out for first signs of spring".
[Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus ''The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell'' Secker & Warburg 1968]
Topics
:''Incomplete list''
31 December 1943
*War guilt
7 January 1944
*New Year's honours
4 February 1944
*Objective truth in history
25 February 1944
*New ideas and progress
24 March 1944
*What is Fascism?
14 April 1944
*Declining birthrates, decaying belief in an afterlife
5 May 1944
*Literary criticism
12 May 1944
*Travel, economic self-sufficiency
19 May 1944
*Killing of civilians in war, conspiracy theories
1 September 1944
*The appeasement of the Leftist press towards the Soviet Union
8 November 1946
*American fashion magazines, road safety campaigns, bread rationing
15 November 1946
*Popular feeling against foreign immigration, slow hanging of war criminals
22 November 1946
*Newspapers ranked by "Intelligence" and "Popularity"
29 November 1946
*"Bad News" stories in newspapers, shortage of watches and clocks, return of the Jews to Palestine
6 December 1946
*Antisemitic tone in ''Trilby'' by George du Maurier, recommendation of middle-age retirement for writers (H. G. Wells), printing of four-letter words
13 December 1946
*UNO and other international conferences, issues of national sovereignty
20 December 1946
*Christmas - in praise of indulgence and conviviality in disregard for vegetarians and teetotallers.
27 December 1946
*How modern knowledge has to depend on authority rather than reasoning, Laski's libel case, disgusting American 'comics'
3 January 1947
*On a liner to Burma when a quartermaster scavenges a custard pie, literary purge in the USSR and expulsion of writers from the Writer's Union, thoughts of Marcus Aurelius as an incentive to getting up in the morning
17 January 1947
*Flawed report in the ''Daily Herald'' on Indians who broadcast on Nazi radio, ''In Darkest Germany'' post-war starvation in Germany, dogs over-indulged at Christmas, stupid expressions
24 January 1947
*Scottish businessmen and their attitudes to Polish refugees, Petain at Foch's funeral and Queen Mary in Windsor
31 January 1947 (As I Pleased)
*Personal experiences of ''Tribune'' as a reader, writer and observer
7 February 1947
*The need for a good D-I-Y guide. dirtiness of snow, Burmese independence and the problem of autonomy of minority groups within minority groups, misprints by H. G. Wells and his lack of self-criticism
14 February 1947
*Scottish Nationalism as a form of race-hatred, the case for keeping the Gaelic language alive, political content in a commercial circular letter from a whisky distiller, amusing epitaphs
7 March 1947
*The need for an improved anthology of modern English poetry
14 March 1947
*Simplifying English spelling and traditional imperial units, food parcel confiscations, an experience in teaching history
28 March 1947
*"Mass Observation", social surveys and the financial determination of what is surveyed, venereal diseases, the first signs of spring
See also
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Bibliography of George Orwell
The bibliography of George Orwell includes journalism, essays, novels, and non-fiction books written by the British writer Eric Blair (1903–1950), either under his own name or, more usually, under his pen name George Orwell. Orwell was a proli ...
References
External links
The ''As I Please'' columns online
{{George Orwell
Essays by George Orwell
Works originally published in Tribune (magazine)
1943 essays
1944 essays
1945 essays
1946 essays
1947 essays