Originally posted by Ant van Oviedo
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While I was in the first form, we were forced by a teacher with right-wing views (I think she was from Northern Ireland and may have been involved in Unionist politics there) to read 'Animal Farm' even though most of us knew very little about the events of 1917. The same teacher kept lecturing us about how people in the Soviet Union had no freedom whatsoever.
Several years later, while in the 6th form at the same school, we had to choose a novel and write an essay about it. I chose Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' mainly because I had already read it and couldn't be bothered to waste my time looking for an alternative book. Funnily enough, it was also around this time that I stopped taking sugar with my tea (partly for health reasons and partly because it was too much bother getting the sugar in the first place) although I was then completely unaware of what Orwell had said about this! This thread is in fact, the first place I have read about Orwell's views on tea.
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