MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2019

Big Brother knows Britain is

heading for catastrophe – yet he

is carrying on regardless

Orwell mayhem: John Hurt as Winston Smith in ‘1984’ (Rex)

MATTHEW NORMAN

God knows who chose Yellowhammer as the name for the government’s clandestine

no-deal contingency planning operation, or why. But I like to think it emerged from

a mischievous subconscious. An anagram for that little bird, as fittingly tweeted

yesterday, is “Orwell mayhem”.

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