Will Self declares George Orwell the 'Supreme Mediocrity'

Novelist takes particular issue with the 'Orwellian language police' who have made plain English an unquestioned virtue

Will Self has fired a gleeful broadside against George Orwell and his fans, describing one of the English language's most revered writers as the "Supreme Mediocrity", slamming the "obvious didacticism" of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, and describing Orwell's acclaimed essay Politics and the English Language as "plain wrong".

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