Orwell was prescient

[identity profile] jhgowen.livejournal.com 2009-05-18 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
So much for "An end to Tory Sleaze".

After 12 years of Labour government, we are the animals standing outside the farmhouse looking from man to pig, and pig to man, and being hardly able to tell the difference.

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Re: Orwell was prescient

[identity profile] alitalf.livejournal.com 2009-05-18 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
He reckoned he oculd see the beginning even then, I am sure.

Re: Orwell was prescient

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2009-05-21 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
He does seem to have displayed foresight in other books.