The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.
BORIS JOHNSONHe 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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I don’t believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.
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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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We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.
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Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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Life isn’t like coursework, baby. It’s one damn essay crisis after another.
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This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.
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I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?
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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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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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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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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 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’m no communist.I’m a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.
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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
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