Ooh, how far back can we go? Guardian, 2012: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/04/tyrannical-world-thomas-the-tank-engine https://www.theguardi

Ooh, how far back can we go? Guardian, 2012: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/04/tyrannical-world-thomas-the-tank-engine https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/04/tyrann... It has phrases like "crazed authoritarian fantasies" and "a taste for punishment that is both brutal and peremptory."