It's certainly been sad and eye-opening to realise that while the rest of us who read George Orwell's 1984 considered it a worst case scenario, those attracted

It's certainly been sad and eye-opening to realise that while the rest of us who read George Orwell's 1984 considered it a worst case scenario, those attracted to careers in the government have found it heartwarming and inspirational. There's nothing in that book you couldn't justify with "think of the children". It seems that, as usual, the only way to escape tyranny is emigration, but I worry one day we'll run out of freer countries to emigrate to.