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‘Huesca’ by John Cornford
Heart of the heartless world, Dear heart, the thought of you Is the pain at my side, The shadow that chills my view. The wind rises in the evening, Reminds that autumn is near. I am afraid to lose you, I am afraid of my fear. On the last mile to Huesca, The last fence […]
‘Huesca’ by John Cornford
Anne Frank never wrote in English, yet English became her second voice. Her diary, born in hiding and pain, crossed linguistic boundaries to shape the world’s conscience. It gave English speakers a personal language for trauma, hope, and remembrance—making a Jewish girl’s words a cornerstone of moral imagination across generations.
Anne Frank – A Voice of Conscience in the English Language
Paris Undercover: A Wartime Story of Courage, Friendship and Betrayal (2025, Ballentine) by Matthew Goodman. Two single women, one an American, the other a Brit living in Paris, both caught up in occupied France during the Second World War. They were part of a network getting soldiers out of France, and they paid dearly for […]
Paris Undercover (book review)
Which political party seeking our vote in tomorrow’s local elections is the most ‘Cornish’? Putting policies aside, most of which are merely variants of ‘build more’, which has the greatest proportion of Cornish candidates? One, admittedly very crude, method for assessing this is to compare the surnames of candidates against the 850 or so surnames […]
Cornwall’s local elections 2025
Soziale Verwerfung Bloß um nicht »soziale Ungerechtigkeiten« oder »soziale Ungleichheit« sagen zu müssen, spricht man von »Verwerfungen«. Es wird verschleiert, dass es Akteure gibt, die dafür verantwortlich sind. Dass die einen viel haben und die anderen wenig; dass jene über Privilegien verfügen, die den anderen weggenommen werden, erscheint als eine Art Naturphänomen – ein geologischer […]
Wörterbuch der Gegenwart
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