[7] Gale was educated at the independent Royal Grammar School, Newcastle, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he graduated with a double-first in history.
On assignment in 1954 to cover the British Labour Party Delegation on its visit to China, he logged his own critical impressions of the emerging bureaucratic style under Mao Zedong's post-revolution regime.
[citation needed] His time at The Spectator is best remembered for his support of Enoch Powell and his appointment of Peter Ackroyd as its literary critic.
[citation needed] He also enjoyed a long stint as a columnist on the Daily Express and in the mid-1980s was a regular panellist on the revived version of television's What's My Line.
Gale's fondness for alcohol was also reflected in Private Eye's habit of referring to him as "George G. Ale".