George Orwell's Blog: Now Things Get Interesting

Two years ago I noted that George Orwell had started a blog. Or, rather, Orwell's diaries began to be posted, day by day, online. I liked the idea at first, but after a while I drifted away. The initial entries from a relatively quiet time in Orwell's life, dealing with stuff like how many eggs he got from his chickens on a given day.

But there's nothing like a war to make life all too interesting:

It is impossible even yet to decide what to do in the case of German conquest of England. The...