Beasts of England

These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.
Emmanuel Goldstein

Streets named after bird species are proliferating despite the actual populations having been in precipitous decline for half a century; while use of the word meadow in street names has increased even as meadows in vulgar actuality have almost disappeared. As a nation that sides with the underdog, Britain rewards the rich and bashes refugees; as a nation that loves the NHS, Britain votes for tax-cutters and staff-deporters; and as the nation that won the war against fascism, Britain rallies to the Farage Falange. Few things could be more natural than that, as a nation of nature-lovers, Britain should pay nominative tribute to its wildlife while letting mere creatures die out.