Jeremy Corbyn
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Even when it came, she wouldn't have it.
No, we're not having that thing on.
And she wouldn't want the television on late in the evening.
Her version of late in the evening was 8 o'clock.
So we could watch television.
We didn't get a television until, like everybody else, I guess, that's about the 50s.
So we were allowed to watch things like Quatermass, which was a great programme.
I think that was on at 8 o'clock, so maybe we got a special pass that day.
I read a lot, particularly history books and novels and so on.
I was academically very unsuccessful in school, probably because I was too interested in a very small number of subjects.
And I used to read a lot of Russian and American novels.
I had a very good teacher, Mr. Birch.
He was in CND and stuff like that.
He was the man with the green corduroy trousers and the CND badge.
There's always one, isn't there?