The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
BORIS JOHNSONIt 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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Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.
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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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The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
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I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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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 would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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You know, sometimes I don’t understand what’s wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don’t seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property.
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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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David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler was a ‘born leader’, declared the befuddled former British Prime Minister.
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Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
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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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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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In 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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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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I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn’t go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.
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