Talk:Beachcomber (pen name)

message: Couldn't this article do with a link to Private Eye? Richard W.M. Jones 08:17, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I meant all the references to Ugandan affairs & Chief Justice Cocklecarrot, etc. which appear in Private Eye Richard W.M. Jones 08:45, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, I see what you mean, yes.  I'll have a look at it. 193.138.107.181 12:16, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Private Eye 

message: I was a bit surprised to find this meaning of the word stowed away in Other uses. I was under the impression that this was the primary meaning of the word, having lived in New Caledonia and to some extent familliarised myself with its history. I'll add this article to my watchlist and do some research (or have my father do it) on the subject. - GSchjetne 09:23, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beachcombers in the South Pacific 

message: George Orwell acknowledged Morton's skill as a humorist (among "the best comic writers of our time" in Funny Not Vulgar, Leader, Dec 1944). 
Elsewhere Orwell is strongly critical of Morton - along with Wyndham Lewis - for championing "reactionary causes" and "conducting endless propaganda against Socialism, The League of Nations and scientific research" (in As I Please, Tribune, 23 June 1944). 
Was this criticism based on an interpretation of the "Beachcomber" columns or did Morton write elsewhere about such issues? Are there political columns not included in Ingram's and Frayn's collections? Orwell says Morton & Wyndham Lewis had together championed "Pilsudski, Mussolini, appeasement, flogging, Franco, literary censorship": can this really be found in the goings-on of Strabismus, Cocklecarrot et al? 
I've always believed Morton's "Beachcomber" columns were a series of hilarious entertainments, nothing more, but have I missed something?
Lyn50
:If you look at the original volumes, as opposed to the Ingrams and Frayn selections, there is a fair amount of what Orwell calls "political Catholicism", Belloc-style, plus general Peter Simple-style lampooning of anything trendy.  Orwell does over-state his case, though, for example by taking a column making fun of the Brains Trust as an attack on free speech.  I suppose you could interpret the Strabismus columns as an attack on scientific research, but you'd have to be pretty humourless. --Sir Myles na Gopaleen (the da) (talk) 08:44, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What was Orwell's criticism based on? 

message: I removed the section on the other use of the word beachcomber since this article's title now makes it clear we're talking about the pen name only. There is now a disambiguation page at Beachcomber that list this and all other uses. --Cab88 15:59, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Mrs Justice Cocklecarrot was the wife of a judge, not a lawyer or a judge in her own right, and was mentioned fifty years before Cherie Blair was ever heard of.  So nice try, but I don't think so. --Sir Myles na Gopaleen (the da) (talk) 08:46, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other uses of Beachcomber 

message: Currently the lede says: 'Beachcomber was the nom de plume used by two humorous columnists, D. B. Wyndham-Lewis and, chiefly, J. B. Morton as authors of the Daily Express column "By the Way" in the period 1919–1975. Two other authors have also used the name: Major John Bernard Arbuthnot MVO, the column's founder, and William Hartston, the current author of the column its revived form.'
Why not 'Beachcomber has been the nom de plume used by four humorous columnists on the Daily Express, between 1917 and the present day, with an interval between 1975 and 1996'? Valetude (talk) 19:37, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lede 

message: This is a fine piece of writing, a good tribute to its author. Can I nominate it for any awards going? 83.217.122.76 (talk) 14:33, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Excellent article

message: The phrase "twelve red-bearded dwarfs" was in bold in this section. Could anyone please tell me if I did the right thing by removing it?--Thylacine24 (talk) 08:15, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed bold 

message: It was then passed to Morton during 1924, though it is likely there was a period when they overlapped.
:Wyndham-Lewis passed it on to Morton because he was moving to the Daily Mail. I don't see how an overlap would have happened. Valetude (talk) 17:45, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overlap? 

message: "By the Way" was originally a column in The Globe, consisting of unsigned humorous pieces; P. G. Wodehouse was assistant editor of the column from August 1903...
:Not clear enough that the column dated back before 1903.
After the Globe's closure, it was reestablished as a society news column in the Daily Express from 1917 onwards...
:The Globe did not fold until 1921. Valetude (talk) 23:32, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "By the Way" column