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What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your m...more

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And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who c...more

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The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

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The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept d...more

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England will still be England, an everlasting animal stretching into the future and the past, and, like all living things, having the power to change ...more

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What he realised, and more clearly as time went on, was that money-worship has been elevated into a religion. Perhaps it is the only real religion-the...more

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The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by th...more

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England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare's much-quoted message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a ...more