George Orwell

How Esmond Romilly went from being a posh Wellington schoolboy to a fierce anti-fascist... The British aristocracy has produced a number of over the years, but few so deeply committed to the cause as Esmond Romilly.

Today, in 1936, John Cornford was killed near the town of Lopera in the south of Spain. Children preparing for evacuation from Spain, during the Spanish Civil War, some giving the Republican salute.

Born today in 1913, Albert Camus tried to place morality above all else. Albert Camus in 1957 (Picture: Wikimedia Commons) "The choices we have to make are always essentially moral choices." The legendary British socialist, , once said that.

It irks me a bit when people phrase things in terms of "the British did this" or "the Mexicans did that". An adjective like 'British' or 'Mexican' denotes millions of people - millions who aren't going to do the same thing in a given situation.