Anyone who has read my newspaper column knows my view that Orwell’s Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four should be permanent fixtures on the school curriculum. Perhaps they could replace Why We Must Apologise For Slavery and Killing Foxes Is So Naughty.
Here are the last two paragraphs of Animal Farm:
‘But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short. An uproar of voices was coming from the farmhouse. They rushed back and looked through the window again. Yes, a violent quarrel was in progress. There were shoutings, bangings on the table, sharp suspicious glances, furious denials. The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously.
Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’
This week the Chief Constable of North Wales prosecuted the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire for speeding at close to 90mph in a 60mph zone. The latter was banned for seven weeks.
Meredydd Hughes, the chief constable of South Yorkshire, apologised after being caught on camera on the A5 at Chirk near Wrexham in May.
He was chairman of roads policing at Acpo.
He was disqualified for 42 days and fined £350 by Wrexham magistrates.
As Orwell said, in the end you couldn’t tell which was which.
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