George Orwell 
The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius 

In The Lion and the Unicorn George Orwell expressing his opinions on the situation in wartime Britain. It expressed his opinion that the outdated British class system was hampering the war effort, and that in order to defeat Nazi Germany, Britain needed a social patriotic revolution in contrast to the oppressing Soviet totalitarian communism – and also a new form of ‘Britishness’, one liberated from Empire and the decadent old ruling classes.