Chips are one of the " cheaply pleasant" foods with which the " underfed, harassed, bored and miserable" may console themselves, wrote George Orwell in " The Road to Wigan Pier" .
So when I came across Baldwin—and George Orwell's book Down and Out in Paris and London, and another one called The Road to Wigan Pier, he knew the details, the stink of poverty.
George Orwell's essay " Politics and the English Language" , published in 1946, took aim at the bureaucrats, academics and hacks who obfuscated their misdeeds in vague, jargon-packed writing.
Still, we're just gonna go ahead and use " George Orwell" when referring to him throughout the video, because, well, partly it's easier, and partly because it's gonna annoy any massive pedants watching.