"RICHARD BLAIR IN NERJA" On March 27th 2018 I had the honour to attend Richard Blair’s conference on his father, George Orwell, in the village of Nerja (Málaga, Spain), where everyone can enjoy some of the most beautiful views of the Costa del Sol in Andalusia. I was gladly surprised that the big auditorium of the Centro Cultural de Nerja ( The Arts Society of Nerja ) was full. Over three hundred people, most of them belonging to the British community from Nerja, left no available seating. Richard Blair delighted us with a brilliant and soul-stirring talk on his father’s Spanish “venture” from Christmas 1936 till June 1937 , when he actively participated in the Spanish Civil War as a member of the POUM ( Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista , ‘Worker’s Party of Marxist Unification’) on the side of the Spanish Official Government that was being attacked by the fascists. But Richard Blair did not only provide a loyal account of his father’s impassioned commitmen