Was Orwell secretly a reactionary snitch? How the author became an internet meme and target of the hard left

In 1949 the man who conceived Big Brother gave a semi-secret government department a list of 38 'crypto-communists' and 'fellow travellers' – a revelation that has given rise to a peculiar revisionism of his legacy source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/george-orwell-snitch-list-reactionary-grass-blacklist-communists-information-research-department-ird-a8414066.html #Headlines by: Adam Lusher

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