¹⁰⁰ “Whereas twenty years ago” – Kingsley Amis, New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction (Penguin, 2012), pp. 70–71.

¹⁰¹ “A Startling View of Life in 1984” – George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Signet Books, 1950).

¹⁰² “1984 is already on the way out” – Walsh, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 293.

¹⁰³ It has even been claimed– See Rodden, The Politics of Literary Reputation, p. 211.

¹⁰⁴ “if you engaged in any kind” – Raymond Williams, Politics and Letters: Interviews with New Left Review (Verso, 1981), p. 384.

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¹ “It is difficult to imagine” – Stephen Haseler, The Death of British Democracy: A Study of Britain’s Political Present and Future (London: Paul Elek, 1976), p. 221.

² “On my trips through Russia” – Buckley, p. 252.

³ “The sad reminders” – Geoff MacCormack, From Station to Station: Travels With Bowie 1973–1976 (Genesis, 2007), p. 93.

⁴ “You see Roy” – Roy Hollingsworth, “Cha-Cha-Cha-Changes: A Journey with Aladdin”, Melody Maker, May 12, 1973.

⁵ “There is a great sense of crisis” – Benn diaries, December 7, 1973, in Against the Tide: Diaries 1973–76 (Hutchinson, 1989), p. 220.

⁶ “because I deeply believed” – Quoted in Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear!: Wilson and the Secret State (London: 4th Estate, 1991), p. 230.

⁷ “a gradual chilling” – Richard Eder, “Battle of Britain 1974”, New York Times, February 24, 1974.

⁸ “A country rent apart” – Patrick Cosgrave, “Could the Army Take Over?”, Spectator, December 22, 1973.

⁹ “I’m an awful pessimist” – Charles Shaar Murray, “Tight Rope Walker at the Circus”, New Musical Express, August 11, 1973.

¹⁰ “1974: der Countdown für 1984 hat begonnen” – Merkur, vol. 28, no. 10, 1974.

¹¹ “It is a shock to realize” – Richard N. Farmer, The Real World of 1984: A Look at the Foreseeable Future (David McKay Co., Inc., 1973), p. vii.

¹² “Never before in history” – Jerome Tuccille, Who’s Afraid of 1984? (Arlington House, 1975), p. 3.