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He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.

Boris Johnson

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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Cheer Fall Queens
Life isn’t like coursework, baby. It’s one damn essay crisis after another.
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Crisis Essay Life Oneself
What makes the achievements of communist Russia so special and different, that you can simper around in a CCCP T-shirt, while anyone demented enough to wear anything commemorating the Third Reich would be speedily banged away under the 1986 Public Order Act?
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Achievement Commemorating Country Demented Wear
Some people think that it [Brexit] is the end of the world. It’s not. On the contrary, it’s a massive opportunity for this country.
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Country Himself Massive Opportunity People Thinking
He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.
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Decision Double Family Himself Lost
This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope.
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Crisis Hope Moments Time
Churchill decides from very early on that he will create a political position that is somehow above left and right, embodying the best points of both sides and thereby incarnating the will of the nation.
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Men Political Thinking
Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.
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Country Done January
Yes, cannabis is dangerous, but no more than other perfectly legal drugs. It’s time for a rethink, and the Tory party – the funkiest, most jiving party on Earth – is where it’s happening.
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Dangerous Earth Legal Perfection
When Cameron’s Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.
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Conservatism Cycle Gold Power
The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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Conservative Meat Sausage
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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Becoming Chance Redneck
Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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Growth Looks Trying
I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad … he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.
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Conclusion Mad Need Professional Reality
The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime.
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Community Creating Hardship
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.
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Blind Creature Ecosystem Existence Kind Member

He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.

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