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The Orwellian horror of the Mr Men books

3 August 2019

9:00 AM

3 August 2019

9:00 AM

It is bad enough when we learn that Santa Claus doesn’t exist. But later in life there comes another trauma, deeper still: when we discover that the beloved books of our childhood were in fact thinly veiled political theses, laden with economic metaphors and turgid intellectual ideas. My youngest child is not yet two.

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