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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.

Boris Johnson

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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Conservatism Journey Time Transportation
It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.
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Good Life Media Writing
My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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Better Ideas Trying World
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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Believe Envy Stress
The only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.
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Myself Reality Reason Risk
I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects
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Dance Documentary People Respect War World
The difference between Hitler’s speeches and Churchill’s speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.
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Differences Speech Thinking
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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Competition Help Kids Look Play Politics Sports Stop View
As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
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Country England People Prime
The difference between Hitler’s speeches and Churchill’s speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.
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Difference Speech Thinking Yourself
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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Book People Play Watch
We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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Break Poor Restrain
People are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.
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Achievement Country People
It hasn’t taken them long, they began by telling us they would have a positive and patriotic case and they’re back to project fear within minutes. There they go again they have nothing positive to say.
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Beginning Fear Positive Talk
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
All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming.
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Clothes Emperor Myself People Talk

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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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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