Eighty years ago today Leon Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico by Ramon Mercader, a Stalinist agent. Here’s my take on that significant event in twentieth century history as it affected George Orwell. It’s a short extract from my novel Barnhill when George Orwell feared for his life on Jura. Were his fears justified? In the novel George Orwell and his friend Paul Potts walk from the Barnhill farmhouse to the north of Jura and discuss […]