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For anyone who doubts that Huxley was satirising the 1930's in Brave New World, consider his list of newspapers:

"In the basement and on the low floors were the presses and offices of the three great London newspapers–The Hourly Radio, an upper-caste sheet, the pale green Gamma Gazette, and, on khaki paper and in words exclusively of one syllable, The Delta Mirror."

Ignoring "chav check" (is that even still a thing?), we don't yet have colour-coded caste outfits, but we do already have the https://www.ft.com .

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