Animal Farm was published on this day in 1945. Everything Orwell warned us about is now referred to as Orwellian, in an irony that can only be described as Kafkaesque.

Please, no meat touching, ma'am.

Honestly a better outcome than things becoming Lovecraftian.

Didn't he rat out people as Communists to his own oppressive government system?

I always find it reductive when people use the word "Orwellian" when they really mean, "Nineteen-Eighty-Fourian." Your referring to Animal Farm is a refreshing reminder that he did, in fact, write five other novels, only one of which (this one) matches the word tonally.

You’re absolutely right… but we can’t dispute that it was indeed a good read

What's always struck me as beyond ironic is that the very same people who openly long for fascism will refer to living through every Dem administration as the equivalent of experiencing 1984 It's a doubleplusbad joke

The Russian embassy in Dublin is on Orwell Road, which is a bit Irish, no?

Radio 4 has just done a whole series of programmes on Kafka v Orwell. It should be on BBC Sounds