Bernard Crick, author of the life of Orwell which is reviewed in this issue, gives his opinion of the Labour Left
Bernard Crick, 22 January 1981
“... and about socialism as the rhetoric of the Labour Party. There was even a hasty attempt to redraw Michael Foot as a moderate, a nice old thing who had had a wild youth, a sheep in wolf’s clothing. This reappraisal, however grotesque, may in part have been motivated by a sudden desire to be analytical and reasonably truthful, after all the intoxicating ... ”