November 2010
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All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses...
– T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935)
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Paralytic sycophants, effete betrayers of humanity, carrion-eating servile...
– Approved terms of abuse for East German Communist speakers when describing the English (1953)
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‘Streaked Lightning’ (1962)
Cracking RAF film featuring the thunderous English Electric Lightning jet fighter. Set to a jazzy, Mingus-esque score, it’s cool daddy-o.
Designed to intercept Russian bombers armed with nuclear weapons before they reached our shores, the supersonic single-seater had a top speed of 1500 mph and the capability to fly to 88,000 ft. Dasvidania...
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‘No hurry, no hurry’, said Sir James with that air of self-denial...
– Ms. Ada Leverson (The Twelfth Hour) 1907
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Sunday lunch in a country pub is one of those things Englishmen with unspeakable...
– A. A. Gill Stow-on-the-Wold (2000)
Prose of a genius, England’s master wordsmith..
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As a man is, so he sees.
– William Blake (1757 - 1827)
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