Britain doesn't change. I'm rereading Sherlock Holmes. It's 1887 and the Daily Telegraph speculates that a murder must have been perpetrated by refugees or socialists, and advocates a closer watch over foreigners, while the Standard blames such outrages on a liberal government. It's in the national blood, isn't it? A Study in Red, White & Blue.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/46575382-3c12-4341-b7c4-d602f1a1a068/britain-doesn-t-change.RSS for NodeMon, 28 Sep 2026 18:36:16 GMTFri, 25 Sep 2026 08:08:14 GMT60@urlyman @Richard_Littler You forgot spiritualist. At least after 1914.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/BashStKid/statuses/117331177089271631https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.online/users/BashStKid/statuses/117331177089271631Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:21:21 GMT@publictorsten @Richard_Littler This comment instantly brings to mind John Cleese

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://masto.ai/users/jmopp/statuses/117331146716566749https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://masto.ai/users/jmopp/statuses/117331146716566749Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:13:38 GMT@RogerBW @Richard_Littler It's 1871 and we're in Middlemarch. The local squire and his friends are agreeing that since Will Ladislaw is foreign and a lefty, he will inevitably end up murdering someone.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/eleanorrees/statuses/117331089705166982https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mas.to/users/eleanorrees/statuses/117331089705166982Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:59:08 GMT@Richard_Littler It's 1910. G K Chesterton (as Father Brown) is quite sure that the existing English way of doing things is the best possible way, and no English person should have anything to do with someone who looks "foreign".

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://oldbytes.space/ap/users/117263521538864603/statuses/117331064359404299https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://oldbytes.space/ap/users/117263521538864603/statuses/117331064359404299Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:52:41 GMT@Richard_Littler Reading Conan Doyle's works over the decades, it is clear to see how he evolved from a sharp-tongued observer of English society into an elderly man clinging to his prejudices.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/publictorsten/statuses/117330991538188881https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/publictorsten/statuses/117330991538188881Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:34:10 GMT@Richard_Littler All I can say is don't read or listen to anything about the 1900 to 1930s period if you don't want to get thoroughly depressed by a dreadful sense of Déjà vu.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/JonnyT/statuses/117330794018035520https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.me.uk/users/JonnyT/statuses/117330794018035520Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:43:56 GMT@Richard_Littler See also Passport to Pimlico (and think of Brexit).

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.xyz/users/wendyg/statuses/117330757212287429https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.xyz/users/wendyg/statuses/117330757212287429Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:34:34 GMT@Richard_Littler I'm reading Dickens Edwin Drood. The murder there is pinned on a dark coloured immigrant, who the local blowhard mayor decides is guilty because he looks unEnglish. It also involves a random group of vigilantes

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/ronanmcd/statuses/117330719410847124https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.green/users/ronanmcd/statuses/117330719410847124Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:24:58 GMT@Richard_Littler written by an anti-immigrant (maybe anti-Semitic) Portsmouth goalkeeping eye doctor

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