“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 family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons. It has rich relations who have to be kow-towed to and poor relations who are horribly sat upon, and there is a deep conspiracy of silence about the source of the family income. It is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts. Still, it is a family. It has its private language and its common memories, and at the approach of an enemy it closes its ranks. A family with the wrong members in control – that, perhaps is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.”
George Orwell: Why I Write.
England.
Published
David A Lockwood 
George Orwell has explained why I like England and ultimately, my frustrations.
True on both counts 🙂
David.
Thanks. Orwell was a very fine writer and as here a very sharp observer. Regards Thom.
I agree – one of our finest: I wonder what he would say about our proclivity for doublethink, and thoughtcrime.
David.
Spalled but in his element skewering the culprits! Thom.