“Apart from pop-culture renditions of some of the novel’s themes, aspects of its language have been leapt upon by libertarians to describe the curtailment of freedom in the real world by politicians and officials - alarmingly, nowhere and never more often than in contemporary Britain.”

Yep. Contemporary Britain is well on it’s a way to an Orwellian scenario, just not so gray. It’s a cheap, tacky, plastic neon-lit dystopia.