Glad that TS Eliot’s still dependably good for a chuckle: “After all, your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm – in fact there couldn’t have been an Animal Farm at all without them: so that what was needed (someone might argue) was not more communism but more public-spirited pigs.”
Yes, apparently Tom was the editor who rejected Orwell’s masterpiece. The Times Online has more, including the text of the actual rejection letter.
