We often hear the new puritans dismiss as clichéd the charge that they have ‘Orwellian’ tendencies, but it is impossible to read of their revisionist shenanigans without being reminded of Winston Smith’s words in Nineteen Eighty-Four: ‘Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped’
