It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.
BORIS JOHNSONIn 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can’t turn the clock back to 1904, what’s the point of being a Conservative?
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Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
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I think it’s absolutely amazing and how the Remain side have the cheek to come and tell us that we improve our security by staying in this organisation I do not understand.
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It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness.
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They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in Watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.
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London is a fantastic creator of jobs – but many of these jobs are going to people who don’t originate in this country.
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Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.
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My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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The difference between Hitler’s speeches and Churchill’s speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.
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London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.
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I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
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Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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I’d like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
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