"The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there," is the famous opening sentence of The Go Between, a 1953 novel by the English novelist, L.P. Hartley. It is used to set up a flashback to 50 years before, and to reflect on the changes in English culture and manners wrought by two world wars and the torrent of modernity.
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Fields is a synonym for soil; blood and soil, anyone? by Daniel Barge The problem with the trial of Alex Fields for the supposed mu... -
Tabloid headlines are the highest form of historical evidence, apparently. by Colin Liddell Due to the obsessive grip that antisemi... -
by Colin Liddell The French have a term for it, L’esprit de l’escalier , or “staircase wit.” It means bright and witty sayings though... -
Affirmative Right chief editor Colin Liddell wishes listeners a happy "St. Andrews Day" and explains why the Scots picked a J... -
by Colin Liddell @AffirmativRight When the Alt-Right was founded in 2010— in as much as a loose umbrella term can be 'founde...