George Orwell Blogs! (sort of)

'It appears from reliable private information that Sir O. Mosley is a masochist of the extreme type in his sexual life.'

So wrote George Orwell in his diary on 29 August 1939*. If only Orwell were still around to see that certain things seem to run in the family of the British Union of Fascist leader...

Anyway, instead, we will have to make do with the fact that Orwell's old diaries will be serialised online starting from tomorrow, day by day, here. Orwell I think would not only have approved of the blogosphere, he is a very much needed new presence in it given the kind of idiocy which currently dominates it, not least from those who claim to stand in his legacy yet cheer on imperialist war.


*Thanks to this weeks Private Eye for bringing this to my attention.