The man who stood up to Orwell
Norman Collins published London Belongs to Me in the same year as George Orwell, his colleague at the BBC, produced Animal Farm; earlier, while working for the publisher Gollancz, Collins had insisted on changes to Keep the Aspidistra Flying, to the author's annoyance. D. J. Taylor draws out the parallels, and the differences, between the dystopian visionary and the great chronicler of metropolitan life in the 1930s and 40s.
