The danger of rewriting history
“WE REALLY HAVE everything in common with America nowadays,” said Oscar Wilde, “except, of course, language.”
Language unites and divides; it alludes to old stories and tells new ones. Listened to carefully, it explains why despite apparent commonalities, vast differences lurk beneath the water. We are beginning to see this within our own nation and politics, but right now the best example is probably transatlantic, as many British conservatives look in concern across the pond
