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There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about.
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.
When you visualize the recent past, do you see it as being somewhere over on the left?
When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.
Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?
I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.
The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival.
As an entrepreneur and employer, in the fairly recent past I have been astonished at how difficult it has been to get young people to take the idea of getting a job seriously.
The BBC TV programme 'Back In Time For Dinner' doesn't just have one of the cleverest titles ever. It is a more-than-usually-serious attempt to recreate the recent past, the day before yesterday.
I don't really understand why we are paid less than the male actors, because we put equal efforts, and recent past has shown that actresses can deliver a hit film. We deserve better pay, equal to what actors get.
Almost the first thing Obama did in the White House was to return the bust of Winston Churchill to the British embassy. That suggests a major re-ordering of things. It'll be fascinating to see what happens from now on. It was a genuine break with the recent past - perhaps to re-connect with the past past.