Looks like Eric caught the interests of MI5

In some ways it just goes to show the modern bedsit conspiracy theorists who think it's all new that it's more of the same.

"MI5 monitored socialist writer George Orwell for more than two decades, but did not believe he was a mainstream communist, records have revealed.

A Scotland Yard Special Branch report in January 1942 said the author of 1984 had "advanced communist views".

However, an MI5 officer responded that Orwell "does not hold with the Communist Party nor they with him".