Posted by John Nichols on February 10, 2012 at 06:25:03 user Mcneacail.
This was on the Lakeland Cam today, I think this to some extent marks how the rest of the world views the England portrayed in the movies and TV shows at times. Incredibly AR is the anthesis of this view, which is interesting in a way.
As I am offering literary criticism and I have identified the author I believe this is a legal post.
JMN
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England ... resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black sheep in it but with all its cupboards bursting with skeletons. It has rich relations who have to be kowtowed to and poor relations who are horribly sat upon, and there is a deep conspiracy of silence about the source of the family income. It is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bed-ridden aunts. Still, it is a family. It has its private language and its common memories, and at the approach of an enemy it closes its ranks. A family with the wrong members in control.
George Orwell 1903-50