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But 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.

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
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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Capital Home Myself Sports World
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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Enemy Myself Rival
It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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Fast Myself Writing
What Hitler did in his concentration camps was equalled if not exceeded in foulness by the Soviet gulags, forced starvation and pogroms.
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Forced Foulness Pogrom Soviet Starvation
Plus I think she can articulate what’s needed at the moment, which is a bit of an antidote to some of the gloom and negativity and misunderstanding about what the Brexit vote means.
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Misunderstanding Moment Negativity
I’m no communist.I’m a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.
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Cutting People Want
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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Doubt Moments Self
I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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Food Healthy Myself Pressure
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
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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Cycling Law Ubiquity
He thinks of himself as a gigantic keystone in the arch, with all the lesser stones logically induced to support his position. He has a kind of semi-ideology to go with it – a leftish Toryism: imperialist, romantic, but on the side of the working man.
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Ideology Lesser Logically Position
I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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Blameless Domesticity Done
I’d like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
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Education Goodness Myself
My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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Ideals Trying World
We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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Celebrate Country People

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