Lisa McKenzie: Orwell Would Loathe Today's Left

There simply can be no doubt about that.

As we now say: the left thinks 1984 is an instruction manual.

I recently re-read George Orwell’s 1941 essay, The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius, and I was taken by his description of the bourgeois, left-leaning intelligentsia of his time. They live in the shallowness of ideas, he writes, severed from the common culture and life experiences of the working class.

Leftist intellectuals weave a web of newspeak and shriek like the pod people from Invasion of the Body Snatchers at anyone who dares to question their shibboleths. And the rest of the left goes along with them, partially out of fear of being shrieked at themselves, partially because No enemies to the left...