More recently Tony Judt warned us of utopias:
The very kind of Englishness Orwell valued: village cricket and pubs. Burke would have approved of that.īurke urged the value of tradition in buffering us from utopian hubris. Or did it? As a teenager the message I got was that any revolution will be betrayed. But it rammed its message solidly into public consciousness. Predictable dialogue – didn’t Philip Pullman stress the importance of dialogue in stories for children? Clearly not written for the far more demanding readership of children. Really? I checked my impression with a friend. Reading it again half a century later I am struck by how much I dislike it. “It’s time” says the ad, “to re-read Animal Farm.” I first read this book as a teenager, like so many others. By George Orwell commentary, Matthew Crampton Muddler Books, 2021
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