I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people’s attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show.
BORIS JOHNSONBut if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.
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I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
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If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn’t ever get anywhere.
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There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
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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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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.
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Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.
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My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.
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I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
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I’m afraid Sadiq Khan is completely wrong. The European Court of Justice is the supreme legal authority in our country.
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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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